Mar 7th, 2012 at 4:00PM: Travel to Japan was disrupted last year when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11. The disaster brought an alarming death toll, fear of nuclear explosion and travel alerts cancelling hundreds of flights and stranding tens of thousands of travelers. But that disaster also elicited enormous response from people all over the world who pledged their help to the affected area. As ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Students travel to Japan, help recovery efforts
Mar 7th, 2012 at 4:00PM: Travel to Japan was disrupted last year when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11. The disaster brought an alarming death toll, fear of nuclear explosion and travel alerts cancelling hundreds of flights and stranding tens of thousands of travelers. But that disaster also elicited enormous response from people all over the world who pledged their help to the affected area. As ...Vice TV kicks off All the Wrong Places travel series (and contests)
Nov 20th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Our friends at VICE TV just launched a new travel series over on their site called All the Wrong Places. In typical VICE fashion the videos focus on fringe topics and travel culture, but unlike some of the previous guides (see: Congo or Liberia) ATWP destinations are attainable and even aspirational to most sane travelers. Unique to the series, though, is that they're actually taking everyday ...
Video of the Day: Crowded Tokyo subway
Oct 17th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
It's Monday, which, for most people, means back to work. After two glorious days with your friends, families and your the comforts of home, it's back to the office. But, before you can get to your place of business, you first need to commute. Many of you spend hours sitting in traffic. Others wait for trains while tapping your feet and looking at the time. No matter how annoying your commute ...
TripAdvisor launches free Mobile City Guide apps for Android users
Oct 12th, 2011 at 1:30PM: On Tuesday, October 11, 2011, TripAdvisor launched their free Mobile City Guide apps for Android users. The apps cover twenty popular destinations, some of which include Paris, New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and London.
Benefits of using the app include:
Reviews of restaurants, hotels, and attractions
Suggested city itineraries
Interactive walking tours
Historical and cultural ...Traveler Q & A: Pavia Rosati
Aug 2nd, 2011 at 9:30AM: Pavia Rosati is the founder of Fathom, a recently debuted travel website. Fathom is smart and beautifully designed. It's full of exciting short briefs about various destinations across the globe.
Rosati, as you'll see from her answers below, is an experienced editor and an avid traveler. Her enthusiasm for Fathom's subject matter is palpable and infectious. We love Fathom and can't wait to see ...Photo of the Day- Rainbow Bridge
Jun 4th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Today's Photo of the Day of Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo, Japan, at night. comes from Flickr user Marc-André Mireault who captions "The rainbow does not really come fro the bridge itself, but from the colourful boats in front of it!"
Do you have an image you would like to share with us? Upload it to the Flickr Gadling group pool. If we like your image we might just pick it to be a future ...Post-quake life in Tokyo: 6 weeks after
May 24th, 2011 at 8:00AM: One of the absurdities of the modern media cycle is that news stories seems to drop off the radar well before they reach a conclusion. While there are still occasional mentions of the situation here in Japan, for the most part the media has moved on to Libya, Osama Bin Laden, Governor Schwarzenegger and the scandals at the IMF.
Six weeks after the fact, the situation in Japan has most ...Pop-up restaurants: dining for a new decade
Apr 28th, 2011 at 1:30PM: First, it was underground supper clubs. Now, everything's coming up pop-ups. As with food trucks, this form of guerrilla cheffing borne of economic need has become a global phenomenon. Equal parts dinner party and dinner theater, a pop-up refers to a dining establishment that is open anywhere from one to several nights, usually in an existing restaurant or other commercial food establishment.
...Around the world in 2000 pictures
Mar 22nd, 2011 at 12:30PM:
This quick trip around the world by filmmaker and photographer Alex Profit is a stunning display of photo-tourism. The video embarks on a journey through Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New York and London. It will cure your nagging fits of wanderlust for the duration of its five minute run-time. Beyond that though, you may experience an uncontrollable urge to visit ...
Tokyo's cat cafes newest trend
Feb 2nd, 2011 at 3:30PM: Hasta la vista, Hello Kitty. Get lost, LOL cats. Tokyo's hot new phenom are neko cafes ("neko" is Japanese for cat). At first appearance typical, cozy coffee houses, closer examination reveals live cats lounging on the furniture, in baskets, or on laps. Which, I guess, isn't nearly as bizarre (or kinky) as Tokyo's maid cafes. Actually, to a cat lover like me, it's quite appealing.
CNN reports ...Five perks at Tokyo's business hotel for the dead
Dec 30th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
There's a hot new hotel in Tokyo, and everyone's dying to get in. You have to meet specific criteria to stay at this place ... and if you can ask for a reservation, you won't get one. Simply put, the living aren't welcome. LISS Center Shin-Kiba calls itself a "business hotel for the dead," a spot where corpses can wait until funerals are arranged.
So, what makes this hotel so special?
1. ...Gadling's favorite hotels for 2011
Dec 8th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Where do your loyal well-traveled Gadling contributors especially love to spend the night? We polled Gadling writers on their favorite hotels in 2010. Think of Gadling's favorite hotels for 2011 as our version of a hotel tip sheet.
Laurel Miller. The Kirketon in Sydney for its quirkiness, cool bar, small size, helpful staff and retro-mod style, blissfully free of big-city attitude. Southern ...Q & A with Grantourismo round-the-world slow travel bloggers
Nov 24th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
With all the holiday travel madness just beginning, sometimes it's nice to take a breath and think about taking travel more slowly. I recently had a chance to meet up with blogger Lara Dunston and her photographer-writer husband, Terence Carter, of the round-the-world travel project and blog, Grantourismo while they were traveling through Istanbul. Lara and Terence hosted me at their fabulous ...Top ten cities with best public transit systems
Nov 4th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
These ten public transportation systems, in random rather than top-to-bottom order, are among the world's best. The transit systems profiled here include some of the most impressively massive as well as some of the best-scaled urban transportation systems. Today's focus is on international public transit systems; as such, the better US public transit systems (New York, Chicago, and Portland, ...Box cutter blades found on Delta flight from Tokyo to Oregon
Nov 3rd, 2010 at 12:00PM: A plane was searched top to bottom upon landing in Oregon after the crew found box cutter blades on it. Delta, recently named the worst airline in the United States, engaged the help of FBI, TSA and Customs and Border Protection officials when Flight 90 arrived from Tokyo, with 155 passengers and a crew of 10.
According to MSNBC:
The flight crew "opted to contact authorities and request they ...Hello Kitty theme park opens in Tokyo
Oct 22nd, 2010 at 2:00PM:
If you're a lover of all things Hello Kitty, there's good news today. Hello Kitty Kawaii Paradise has opened in the Odaiba district of Tokyo.
The 10,000-square foot attraction is being called an indoor theme park, but it's a pretty small space to accommodate any kind of ride or show. Kawaii Paradise does have a theater with Hello Kitty cartoons projected onto a domed ceiling, a restaurant ...Get 178 Mandarin Oriental Tokyo rooms, keep the neighbors away
Oct 14th, 2010 at 1:00PM: There's nothing worse than being in a hotel room that's filled with the sounds of your neighbors. It has to get pretty bad outside your door for some out-of-control moron to be loud on your side of it, but let's face the reality: some hotel neighbors are awful. You can solve this problem easily, as long as you have close to three quarters of a million dollars on hand per single night of bliss.
...Photo of the day (10.7.10)
Oct 7th, 2010 at 5:00PM:
I'm one of those weird adults who doesn't know how to ride a bike. No great excuse, just never bothered to learn as a kid, preferring indoor pursuits and walking on nice solid ground, and it's become harder to learn as an adult. My husband has attempted several times over the years and now I'm sort of like Toonces the driving cat - I can ride, just not very well. Maybe this fellow in Tokyo is ...Eating Japanese Culinary Time Warp Cuisine
Sep 27th, 2010 at 11:00AM: I just flew 7,000 miles to eat a Salisbury steak with a side of ketchup-laced spaghetti. Well, okay, that's not the only reason I'm in Tokyo, but have to admit when I first learned about yoshoku cuisine my anticipation to try it trumped all the tiny ramen restaurants I'd go to and even the Tsukiji fish market for just-pulled-from-the-sea fresh sushi.
Yoshoku cuisine is, after all, like eating in a ...Adventures in Eating: The Other Kind of Sushi in Tokyo
Sep 23rd, 2010 at 10:30AM: "I serve raw meat," said the chef, as I approached an empty seat at the counter.
"Did you hear me?," he said. "Raw. Meat."
He said it as if he were trying to scare me away, a verbal tone akin to "inadvertently" lifting up his shirt above his waste to reveal a handgun tucked into his pants. I nodded and sat down. After all, I didn't just happen upon this restaurant by accident. I was in Tokyo and ...
