Destination: Tokyo
Tokyo: ‘The Premier City in the World for Food’
by Michael Yessis | 02.15.08 | 2:51 PM ET
Michelin’s first-ever guide to Tokyo gave the city’s restaurants a combined 191 stars, more than Paris (98 stars) and New York City (54 stars) have together. Sure, Tokyo also has far more restaurants (160,000) than Paris (20,000) and New York (23,000), but the news of the quality of the Japanese cuisine—Michelin released the Tokyo ratings last November—has resonated with travelers. According to the Japanese government, seven out of 10 international travelers to the country cite food as the primary reason for visiting.
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Yahoo! BuzzJapan’s Latest Budget Accommodation: Internet Cafes
by Jim Benning | 05.15.07 | 3:14 PM ET
Photo by Jael via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
Seriously. The nation that brought us the capsule hotel has done it again. The country’s working poor—and salarymen who don’t want to spring for a capsule after a night of drinking—are spending nights in Internet cafes, according to a Reuters story. For $12 to $20, they get a reclining chair in front of a computer, soft drinks, comics and, of course, Internet access. No word on how many low-budget travelers (also known as the backpack lunatic fringe) are spending nights in Internet cafes, but Wikitravel suggest Japanese cafes are an option, noting that some even provide a mat to sleep on and a shower.
Why Did David Sedaris Just Spend Three Months in Tokyo?
by Jim Benning | 03.29.07 | 1:20 PM ET
Largely because the author and NPR contributor wanted to quit smoking. “You can’t walk on the street and smoke there,” he told Newsday. “You have to stand by a special ashtray.” Sedaris also responded to charges that he sometimes fabricates stories.
Tokyo for Under $1,000 a Week, Including Airfare
by Jim Benning | 06.29.06 | 12:20 PM ET
Travel writer Ben Brazil recently accomplished this very feat—nibbling sashimi, enjoying private city tours, wandering through Asakusa’s old temples. Please, he writes in Sunday’s Washington Post, “refrain from envy.” As he discovered, Tokyo is not the world’s most expensive city anymore: “It’s fallen all the way to No. 2.”
Japan Unmasked
by Terry Ward | 11.07.05 | 7:47 AM ET
Karin Muller's "Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa" chronicles the author's time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Terry Ward writes that it offers insight into the famously closed culture -- and a dose of humor.
“Tokyo on One Cliche a Day”
by Michael Yessis | 10.20.03 | 9:01 PM ET
Oh, those wacky Japanese. They eat whale meat. They love comic books. They sleep off their sake buzz in hotel rooms the size of refrigerators. And they host loads of Western writers who love to write about such wacky things. The latest is Seth Stevenson, who recently filed a week’s worth of dispatches from Tokyo for Slate’s Well-Traveled feature. No deeper cultural insights here. Just some corny laughs. “[I]f you’re still hung up on the whale, you should know that you can get horse sashimi here,” Stevenson writes. “I have not eaten horse sashimi, but if I do, I am planning this exchange: I take a bite of horse, cough, clear throat, cough. Companion: ‘Something wrong with your throat?’ Me: ‘Just a little horse.’”
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