Tokyo
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
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
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
- Opinion
- My happy place
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
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 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
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
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
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
- Opinion
- Japan
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