Japan Our Trip to Tokyo DisneySea: A One-of-a-Kind Disney Experience Posted on June 10, 2026June 10, 2026 By Becky This Easter, we swapped chocolate eggs and roast dinners for somewhere we’d been dreaming about visiting for years: Japan. And as a family of avid Disney fans, there was never really any question about whether Tokyo DisneySea would make the list. Visiting DisneySea was part of a bigger two-week trip… Read more
Japan The Japan Travel Apps I Actually Used (As a Family of Five) Posted on June 1, 2026June 3, 2026 By Becky Travelling Japan as a family of five means you’re essentially running a small logistics operation from your phone. Navigation, translation, payments, bookings, safety alerts – Japan asks a lot of your phone, and if you’re not prepared, you’ll feel it within the first hour of arriving at Tokyo Station and… Read more
Japan Best Coffee in Japan: What We Found Across Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima Posted on March 13, 2026 By Becky I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t book a trip to Japan thinking I’d come home raving about the coffee. Matcha, yes. Ramen, absolutely. But coffee? I wasn’t expecting much. Turns out, Japan has one of the most extraordinary coffee cultures I’ve ever stumbled into, and I’ve been thinking about… Read more
Japan Avatar Robot Cafe Tokyo Review Posted on December 1, 2025 By Becky Key Takeaways What It Is: A unique Tokyo cafe where robots are remotely controlled by people with disabilities, creating meaningful employment and genuine human connections Best For: Families looking for an experience that combines novelty with heart, anyone wanting to support inclusive employment Booking Essential: Reserve the OriHime Diner experience… Read more
Japan Japan Christmas Dinner: KFC, Cake & Everything You Need to Know Posted on October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 By Becky Key Takeaways KFC is the most popular Christmas dinner in Japan, with around 3.6 million families ordering it each year Christmas cake in Japan is a fluffy strawberry shortcake, completely different from traditional British Christmas cake Christmas Eve in Japan is primarily for romantic dates, while Christmas Day is more… Read more
Japan Nara Deer Park – Our Guide to Visiting the Bowing Deer of Nara Posted on September 9, 2025December 1, 2025 By Becky When we travelled to Japan this year as a family of 5, one of the things I was most excited about doing was visiting Nara, and specifically spending time at Nara Deer Park and spending time with and feeding the famous bowing deer of Nara! We incorporated our trip to… Read more
Japan Our Teamlab Borderless Review Posted on July 5, 2025December 1, 2025 By Becky We recently visited Japan, spending a week in Tokyo as a family of 5 (1 adults, 2 teens and a 7 year old), and one of the places to visit on our bucket list after hearing so many good things about it, was Teamlabs Borderless. The teamLab Borderless museum in… Read more
Japan Our Visit to the MiPig Cafe Harajuku, Tokyo Posted on July 1, 2025December 1, 2025 By Becky When planning our Tokyo adventure, we each had our “must-do” list. The teens wanted to shop in Shibuya and check out the Robot Cafe, our 7-year-old wanted to visit DisneySea, my husband was happy to go with the flow… but I had dreams of of the small, pink, porcine variety…. Read more
Japan Things to do in Tokyo during New Years as a Family Posted on June 16, 2025November 7, 2025 By Becky When we touched down in Tokyo in April 2025—cherry-blossom-mad kids in tow —the city stole our collective heart within hours. Neon canyons, spotless parks, conbini ice-cream at midnight: it all clicked. On the flight home the debate wasn’t if we’d be back but when, and the answer we kept circling… Read more