After a long weekend shopping and eating in Tokyo, I needed a way to get back to Bangkok and with just 40,000 American Airlines miles required to fly Japan Airlines’ (JAL) first class product on their Boeing 777-300, was there really any other option? What surprised me most about the booking process was that there […]
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While new hotels are almost always enjoyable to stay in, new hotels in Japan often have an added bonus – that they still smell like hinoki (Japanese cypress). On a recent trip to Nara, I was lucky enough to experience this Japanese new hotel smell at the Novotel Nara. I was in Nara for just
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I have been going to Japan for a decade now, but until very recently, I had never made it off the mainland. At the tail end of a month-long trip to the Land of the Rising Sun in November, I decided it was time to I finally check out the country’s tropical paradise, so I
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As long as I have been going to Japan, I have been enamored by its business hotel brands. Hotel chains such as Super Hotel and Dormy Inn are where I always prefer to stay in Tokyo. Although the rooms are generally small, those hotels are clean, utilitarian and comfortable and I have grown to love
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Earlier in the month I booked a last minute trip from Honolulu to Tokyo. There are a number of airlines which fly this route given how popular Hawaii is as a vacation destination for the Japanese. While business class and miles fares were way too expensive, sitting in the back of the bus did not
After celebrating the New Year in Thailand, my cheap open-jaw business class flight home on Air France left from Kyoto. There are a couple of airlines that fly nonstop from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) to Osaka Kansai Airport (KIX) including Thai Airways, Thai AirAsia X, Peach Airways, and Japan Airlines. While I will be flying
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Ever since my first visit to Kaiten Sushi Ginza Onodera in Tokyo, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. So naturally, when I returned to Japan earlier this month, I was dead set on paying the restaurant a visit again (or as it turned out eventually, three). This time, I checked out the
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Most travel loyalty programs these days make you jump through hoops to register and only reward you if you are a very, very frequent traveler shelling out big bucks. However, there is a charming hotel brand in Japan which will give you cold hard cash when you stay there. The Super Hotel chain, including my
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