Just added: New destinations & travel tips

What’s new on The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had

The Tokyo Toilets are all the public toilets lovingly cleaned by the main character in Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days • They’re just public restrooms, but each is a masterpiece of the architect’s style and vision • Beautiful during the day AND lit up at night

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Idealized European, Asian and anime-inspired worlds (including Evangelion and Sailor Moon) • People figures doing ordinary, daring and hilarious things • Airport and spaceport with model planes and rockets that take off and land • Studio where you can get a 3D scale model of yourself made to insert in any scene for a year

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Beyond Tokyo: Great only-in-Japan stuff to do in the rest of the country

Where to go before everyone else discovers them.

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All Things Disney

Where to go for all the inside scoop on going to Tokyo Disneyland and Disneysea

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It’s the year 1784 and the shogun rules with an iron fist . . . except within the walled pleasure quarter of Yoshiwara.Inside the Great Gate, samurai law does not apply, and it’s women who pull the strings

The Samurai’s Octopus is a truly remarkable book, one that surprised and charmed me at every turn of the page…an enchanting, fascinating journey. You’re in for a treat.”
James Ziskin, Anthony, Barry, and Macavity Award-winning author of the Ellie Stone mysteries

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Here are some more tips to make your Japan travel easier:

And here are the other places I take my friends when they come to town

Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had

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