Tokyo

Price Check Tokyo Shopping List – What Things Cost in Tokyo

Tokyo Lunch Tray, Tokyo, Japan. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. Price Check: a Tokyo Shopping List.

Shopping is terrific fun in Tokyo, whether you’re browsing the little shops selling handmade hairbrushes in Asakusa or the sleek boutiques specialising in traditional gifts in Tokyo Midtown. But shopping for food in Tokyo is especially good fun, making research for this Tokyo shopping list, the latest edition of our Price Check series very enjoyable … Read more

Our Home Away from Home in Tokyo is a Studio Apartment in Akasaka

Holiday Rental Apartment, Tokyo, Japan. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. Our Home Away from Home in Tokyo.

Our home away from home in Tokyo is a smart little studio apartment in Akasaka. There’s a school on the corner and in the tiny streets behind us there are neat weatherboard houses tightly packed together. There are leafy lanes between the houses, bicycles parked out front, and rows of shoes at the entrances. It’s … Read more