Japan, the way I actually travel it.
Hi, I’m Kengo — I run the Tokyo Kenchan YouTube channel.
Every guide here comes from a trip I filmed myself — the trains I rode, the hotels I stayed in and the mistakes I made, so you can travel the same way, or even better.
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Asakusa neighborhood guide
Shibuya neighborhood guide
Things to do in Shinjuku
Ikebukuro, Tokyo’s underrated terminal town
Ginza: more than luxury shopping
Ueno neighborhood guide
These are my written guides. The Tokyo map just below opens my videos.
Every Tokyo video I’ve made, on one map.
This map is my video map: pick a neighborhood and it opens my YouTube video of it. The written Tokyo guides are just above.
One night in Oku-Nikko
Nikko Travel Journal: One Night in Oku-Nikko — Hotel, Hiking & Trains
The hotel I stayed at, the trails I hiked and how I got there by train.
NEW VIDEOWalking Along Tokyo’s Kanda River Surprised Me
Easy escapes by train
Hotels I actually slept in
Take my guides with you
TOKYO: Walking Routes & Neighborhoods
My Tokyo walking guide with 15 self-guided routes.
Places I’ve filmed across Japan
I’m writing these places up as guides. For now, most of them open the video; Nagasaki and Takamatsu already have written guides. Day trips from Tokyo are in the box on the right.
Hi, I’m Kengo.
I run the Tokyo Kenchan YouTube channel, and this site is where I write up the trips from my videos.
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