by Tokyo Becky | Nov 21, 2025 | Japan Travel
If you have been searching for how to move to Japan while keeping your remote job, a Japan Digital Nomad Visa is a practical way to make it happen. This visa is included within the “Designated Activities” category and lets qualified remote workers live in Japan for up...
by Tokyo Becky | Nov 20, 2025 | Japan Travel
Aren’t you afraid to be going somewhere where you don’t know anyone? How can you eat raw fish? Aren’t you afraid you’ll get sick? Aren’t you worried about going so far away? How can you leave your family? What if something happens to you?...
by Tokyo Becky | Nov 15, 2025 | Japan Travel
After living in Japan for 13 years, here is why Osaka is the perfect base for first-time visitors and how to plan the ideal Tokyo visit. When I first moved to Japan, I thought I would stay for a year. Thirteen years later, I was still there, eating ramen after work,...
by Tokyo Becky | Nov 13, 2025 | Japan Travel
Whenever I’m in Tokyo, there’s one place I never miss – even if I am only in town for a week: Thermae-Yu (1-1-2 Kabukicho), the enormous six-story hot spring complex hidden just a few steps from Shinjuku’s famous Golden Gai. This is actually Tokyo’s...
by Tokyo Becky | Nov 8, 2025 | Japan Travel
When most people come to Tokyo, they hit up three main places: Harajuku/Meiji Jingu shrine, Asakusa and Sensoji Temple, and the Shibuya Crossing (the famous huge crosswalk with all the TVs at the top of the buildings featured in most non-Japanese films set in Tokyo)....
by Tokyo Becky | Oct 21, 2025 | Japan Travel
What if I told you that there was a place in Tokyo that could introduce all the fun that the city has to offer with a lot less of the walking? In my self-published guidebook, “Shimokitazawa – A Tokyo Beginner’s Guide to the World’s Most Walkable Neighborhood,” I...
