Getting Around Japan
Rail, transit, taxis — everything you need to move through the country with confidence.
Before You Go
Tourist Etiquette for Japan
What to know before you arrive, what you’ll figure out the first day anyway, and a few things that will make you look considerably less like a tourist.
Jet Lag
There is no cure. There are, however, things that make it shorter. And one or two things that reliably make it worse.
Travel Like a Head of State
When a foreign dignitary lands, someone meets them at the jetway. The rest of us queue up with everyone else. There’s a middle option.
Changes & Cancellations: What Are Your Options?
A hurricane, a conflict, a health event, or a change of heart. Your options depend on who’s making the call — you or the supplier — and how early you make it.
Travel Protection Plans: What They Actually Cover
We have clients who decline travel protection every year. Some of them have later called us wishing they hadn’t. The ones who purchased it and needed it have never once complained about the cost.
Global Entry: Is It Worth It?
The CBP agents had gotten so efficient at processing planeful after planeful of returning Americans that I rarely waited more than fifteen minutes. Then came the occasional arrival push — our flight plus three others, half the stations inexplicably unmanned — and fifteen minutes turned into an hour. That’s when Global Entry started looking like a reasonable investment rather than a convenience for people with more money than patience.