Japan

Japan has been one of the biggest holdouts in terms of reopening for tourism since COVID. They’ve only just opened the tourism door, and it’s only a teeny tiny crack.…

Earlier this month, the headlines that got travelers’ attention was that Japan planned to reopen to international tourists in June. The announcement had been made by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida…

After my co-worker learned about my travel hobby/obsession/blog, he asked me where I’ve traveled. I rattled off a few places, such as Japan and Austria, and he replied that he’d…

Vietnam Vietnam had not planned to open for tourism until this summer. However the Vietnamese tourism ministry is now hopeful the country will be able to fully reopen its borders…

While our plans to revisit Japan started months earlier, we’ll join the story in January 2020 when I found business class award flights with the points we had in the…

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles and has some of the most well-known names…

When you travel frequently, you’re undoubtedly going to make some mistakes. Some of these will be because you didn’t understand the social norms of where you’re visiting. Others will be…

I think the ultimate in travel luxury is the lifetime pass, or its equivalent, to something. Walt Disney World sold lifetime passes to select visitors and associates in the 1970s…

In what can only be seen as a promising sign, Japan let the COVID state of emergency protocols expire in all prefectures at the end of September. Tokyo and neighboring…

Sentencing has been handed to a woman who gave birth in an airport restroom, and then subsequently killed the baby girl and buried her in a nearby park. This tragic…