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From Tokyo with Love: Autumn 2025

December 21, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: tokyo, japan, asia, travel, japanese, design, autumn, fall, ikimasho, blog, photography, travel writer

Postcards from Kagoshima

December 14, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Travel: Inside Japan • Tags: asia, blog, design, food, ikimasho, japan, japanese, kagoshima, kyushu, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

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From Tokyo with Love: Summer 2025

September 30, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, design, food, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

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Postcards from Ireland

August 1, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: ireland, northern ireland, photography, travel

Sanja Matsuri 2025

July 16, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel

From Tokyo With Love: January – April 2025

May 8, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, Kyoto, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

Postcards from America

March 10, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: america, blog, books, California, design, ikimasho, japan, photography, reading, tokyo, travel, travel writer, usa, writing

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Goodbye 2024. Hello 2025.

January 2, 2025 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, japan, japan-travel, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

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Postcards from Chichibu

November 11, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Travel: Inside Japan • Tags: asia, blog, Chichibu, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, saitama, tokyo, trains, travel, travel writer

From Tokyo with Love: Summer 2024

September 16, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Traditional Festivals, Travel: Inside Japan, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, blog, design, fukuoka, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer, vietnam

Postcards from Ho Chi Minh City

August 25, 2024 by joostay

With real-feel temperatures of over 40 degrees in Tokyo this summer, it sometimes felt like we were prisoners in our own house – looking out the window at the beautiful sunshine, yet acknowledging that it really wasn’t feasible to walk about in it all day in case of heatstroke. And so, one afternoon, we went online and booked flights leaving the very next morning to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam where the temperatures were at least a little cooler […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, photography, travel

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Postcards from Fukuoka

July 18, 2024 by joostay

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From Tokyo with Love: May & June 2024

June 24, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asakusa, asia, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

Undressing Tradition: The Yakuza at Sanja Matsuri 2024

May 27, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Traditional Festivals • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, Justin Egli, photography, reviews, tokyo, travel, travel writer

From Tokyo with Love: March & April 2024

May 5, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, design, food, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

From Tokyo with Love: Sakura 2024

April 13, 2024 by joostay

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From Tokyo with Love: January & February 2024

March 24, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: art, asia, books, design, entertainment, food, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

Goodbye 2023. Hello 2024.

January 7, 2024 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, nature, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

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From Tokyo with Love: Summer 2023

October 27, 2023 by joostay

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Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, photography, tokyo, travel, travel writer

Postcards from Bali

September 18, 2023 by joostay

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Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, bali, blog, design, ikimasho, indonesia, photography, travel

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Postcards from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

September 11, 2023 by joostay

There was a time, about ten years ago, that I was seriously considering a move to Kuala Lumpur. It came at a period of my life when I was doing a lot of travelling, and indeed writing about travel, and so I thought what better place to be based than the heart and headquarters of Air Asia who were often looking contributors to their in-flight magazine. At the time, Air Asia were running daily flights at midnight from Haneda to […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, blog, design, ikimasho, photography, travel, travel writer