Travel Smart Japan

Videos

Videos

A curated catalogue of our YouTube films — city series, countryside onsen, quiet cultural encounters. Japan as Liza sees it.

kyoto

A morning at a Kyoto ryokan — silence, ritual, light

One night at a 200-year-old machiya ryokan — the light of dawn, the choreography of breakfast, the presence of an okami-san.

shopping

Tokyo Shopping — the quiet boutiques grown-ups love

Ginza, Aoyama and Daikanyama — Liza's field notes on the shops that Tokyo's most discerning women actually visit.