Cooking Dinner in Tokyo: A Seasoned Traveler Gets a Taste for Local Flavor By Kristy Alpert My stomach churned once again as I passed another indecipherable train station sign along the Odakyu line. Sitting on that Japanese train, palms lightly sweating, I realized I had never quite felt so far…
FIGHT CLUBS By Kristy Alpert In a small, dark room lined with traditional samurai weaponry and paved in well-worn planks of Japanese hard wood, a group of masked men meet together for the ultimate show down of physical prowess. If it seems like this scene is straight out of a…
This Month’s Hottest Hotels Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills Tokyo Design Notes Opened last June on the top six floors of Tokyo’s 52-story Toranomon Hills tower, these 164 rooms comprise Japan’s biggest Andaz and the first hotel project by legendary designer Shinichiro Ogata. With the help of New York–based interior designer…
HIT LIST The Best Places to NOT Eat Local Will travel for food. That’s our motto. And the more local the better. But sometimes the most authentically local joints are the ones with seriously foreign fare. From tacos in Prague to pizza in Portugal, Kristy Alpert serves up the most…
