Travel Desk / Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hakone
Japan
Blanche becomes almost reverent, loses her composure in the Tokyo department store beauty halls, and speaks in hushed tones about stationery. Hazel respects Japan structurally and completely, loves the trains and the precision, and enjoys luxury openly for the first time once she sees it is thoughtfulness rather than excess.
Coming soon
- Aman Tokyo, for the bathroom assessment
- Hoshinoya Kyoto, for the ryokan
- Park Hyatt Tokyo
- The boutique ryokans of Hakone, for the onsen
- Ana’s Japan, Tampopo and The Pillow Book, the films she curates, and Norwegian Wood read on a train. Hazel’s Muji, and the correct notebook found at last
- The Kyoto ryokan, the emotional center of the series
- The onsen
- The Tokyo beauty hall
- The stationery shop, where Hazel finds the correct notebook
- Tsukiji and Nishiki markets
- Ramen and soba
- The convenience store run at eleven at night
- Sake and Japanese whisky, on production quality
- Japan Airlines or ANA business class, among the finest in the world
This hub opens lightly and fills over time.