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 …