Hidden hotels, outstanding restaurants, secret bars, off-the-radar strolls ... In this guide you’ll find a carefully curated, eclectic selection for every budget. Designed for both travellers and locals, it reveals handpicked addresses chosen by local writers – each place a gateway to discovery, far from the crowds and off the beaten path. A fresh take on the art of travel.

Discover a tearoom in the back of a flower shop, have fun with a Michelin-starred chef who does things like no one else, visit a restaurant hidden away in the heart of Shibuya, have lunch in a Japanese garden, spend the night on a bookshelf, spend a night on a library bookshelf, listen to classical music in a bar from the 1950s, enjoy a traditional Japanese bath surrounded by plants, sleep in a capsule hotel, celebrate your ‘un-birthday’ at an izakaya, get a massage in a hammock ... Hidden hotels, outstanding restaurants, secret bars, off-the-radar strolls ... In this guide you’ll find a carefully curated, eclectic selection for every budget. Designed for both travellers and locals, it reveals handpicked addresses chosen by a local writer – each place a gateway to discovery, far from the crowds and off the beaten path. A fresh take on the art of travel.