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Samurai Town and mushroom foraging tour.

There’s a new way to kill time at Tokyo’s major international airport

Cancelled during the pandemic, Narita has replaced its layover program with a new, improved version.

  • Julietta Jameson

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Music at a record bar in Japan is like a conversation.

I discovered the secret to feeling like a local in Japan

I’m a sucker for a Japanese record bar. The drinks, the decor, and of course, the music are all sublime, coming together to create an experience where you share more than just a beer with the people sitting next to you.

  • Paul Marshall
Tachiataru is in a part of Tokyo where I’ve never seen another tourist.

Want to feel like a local in Tokyo? Here’s where to drink

Small and intimate, tachinomis – also known as standing bars – provide a window into Japanese drinking culture, where it’s okay to turn up alone.

  • Paul Marshall
Not every part of Tokyo is like the futuristic Shibuya or Shinjuku districts.

I will never cease to be amazed by this gigantic metropolis

This Asian city is like no other place on Earth. It thrills me, it revitalises me, it always leaves me wanting more.

  • Ben Groundwater
Fuglen cafe and bar, Tomigaya.

The lively, bohemian Tokyo neighbourhood that’s off the beaten track

It might be walking distance from high-rise, high-octane Shibuya, but off-the-beaten-track Tomigaya is a bohemian pocket where entrepreneurial spirit thrives.

  • Penny Watson
Tokyo deep dive… pool view.

Tokyo Bay district the next big thing as luxury hotel opens

Now boasting Japan’s first Fairmont, Tokyo’s Minato ward might just be about to be on every traveller’s hit list.

  • Julietta Jameson
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The Park Hyatt Tokyo sky bar featured in Lost in Translation.

Tokyo’s iconic ‘Lost in Translation’ hotel to finally reopen

The hotel made world-famous by the 2003 film has completed the first major renovation in its 30-year history.

  • Julietta Jameson
Nightlife in Shinjuku.

The essential guide to Tokyo’s notorious entertainment district

You’ll come across all kinds of things here: Godzilla, pretty men that work in bars for lonely women, fake monks begging, annoying touts, the odd gangster.

  • Brian Johnston
Treehotel, Sweden. For sheer wow-factor, it’s hard to beat the hotel’s most recent addition, Biosphere, which was designed by Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group.

Banishing bland: The most stylish hotel and airline cabin designs in 2025

From an 1881 merchant’s house transformed into a boutique hotel in Athens, to Mondrian’s entry into Australia on the Gold Coast, we celebrate the brands getting creative and banishing bland.

  • Traveller Team
Shinjuku’s Golden Gai, where more than 200 small bars are crammed together.

Alone in Tokyo, I shook off embarrassment to do it my way

My younger self enthusiastically sang into an Impulse deodorant can. Now I’m holding an actual microphone in a soundproof room.

  • Julia D'Orazio