Tips for travellers

All roads lead to Domo: Domo-kun at Tokyo Station

This Week in Tokyo – 20 August 2019

The latest edition of This Week in Tokyo – a review of the Maction Planet week that was and a look ahead to what’s coming up in and beyond the city. Check out photos from our tours and read insights into our explorations as we get under the skin of the World’s Greatest Metropolis, and beyond. This […]

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Beat jet lag like a pro as you fly to Tokyo for your Maction Planet Tokyo Private Tour

Conquering Jet Lag like a Pro

Jet lag – the arch-nemesis of travel. Mac, Founder of Maction Planet, has travelled to over 100 countries. Straight from an expert traveller, here are several tried-and-tested tips to make sure you hit the ground running in The World’s Greatest Metropolis, and beyond. I’ve been fortunate enough to go round-the-world 13 times. It has taken […]

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Showa Gentokan visited on a Maction Planet Tokyo Private Tour

10 Tokyo Museums Odder than the Cup Noodle Museum

The August edition of British Airways’ Highlife Magazine has a feature about the world’s oddest museums. Japan is represented by The Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama. While we don’t doubt that some people may find that fairly odd, here are 10 museums which we would argue are considerably odder. We use ‘odder’ here very affectionately, […]

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