There’s a specific kind of travel nerd energy that comes with booking the most expensive seat on a bullet train that’s already faster than anything most...
🇯🇵 Japan
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇪🇸 Spain
Emirates Business Class Tokyo to Barcelona – the new 777 and old A380 back to back
For years, if you wanted to fly Emirates Business Class on a Boeing 777, there was a 50/50 chance your seatmate in the middle seat was going to introduce themselves to...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto – Kengo Kuma’s new onsen hotel with a Noh stage you didn’t know you needed
Kyoto has no shortage of luxury hotels. It has the Park Hyatt, the Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton, the Aman. So when a new five-star property opens and its headline...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Park Hyatt Kyoto – 70 rooms, a Yasaka Pagoda view and a Michelin-starred breakfast you have to pre-order
The Park Hyatt Kyoto has a problem, and the problem is that it’s too good to talk about without sounding like you’re on the hotel’s payroll. It opened...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Aman Kyoto – 26 rooms, a secret garden 40 years in the making and $4,510 a night in autumn
Here is a hotel that took 20 years to conceive, 10 years to negotiate the land, another 10 years to build, and then the architect who designed it died one year before it...
The Asuka II has won Japan’s Cruise Ship of the Year award for 31 consecutive years. Thirty-one. That’s either the most impressive loyalty in the cruising...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇹🇷 Türkiye
Turkish Airlines business class – Istanbul to Tokyo on the 787-9 Dreamliner
So you just watched nearly an hour of Turkish Airlines business class footage and now you want the actual breakdown – fair enough. Two flights, two very different...
✈️ Flights, 🇫🇷 France, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇯🇵 Japan
Air France business class Tokyo to Mykonos – 14 hours on the 777 and what Paris CDG actually looks like in between
Tokyo to Mykonos is not a route you fly in a straight line. It’s Tokyo Haneda to Paris CDG on a Boeing 777-300ER, then a 2 hour 40 minute connection and onto an...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Four Seasons hotel Kyoto – the 800-year-old garden hotel in Japan’s old capital
Right, so you just watched an hour-long tour of a hotel built around a pond garden that’s older than most European countries, and now you want to know if...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇶🇦 Qatar, 🇦🇪 UAE
Qatar Airways Qsuite A350-1000 Tokyo to Doha – the business class that keeps winning world’s best
Okay, so Qatar Airways has now won “World’s Best Business Class” at the Skytrax awards so many times that it’s basically the category they...
