The Tokyo Traveler

Chuo Ward is home to over 100 thousand residents in a 10.1 square kilometer area of central Tokyo.  It is the second smallest ward in Tokyo and the second least populated ward.  Like neighboring Chiyoda Ward, Chuo ward offers visitors and residents a lot of things to do and see despite its small area.
A Brief History
Chuo City, as it stands today, was founded as a ward of Tokyo in 1947 but it’s history dates back to the 1600’s when a powerful Shogun began planning to establish Tokyo, then Edo, as the capital of Japan.   Despite being ravaged …read more

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Named by Fortune as one of the best new business hotels, The Peninsula Hotel Tokyo offers an amazing array of services to its guests. The hotels offers 314 guest rooms, including 47 suites on 24 floors as well as five restaurants, a lounge bar, two ballrooms, six elegantly designed function rooms, a wedding chapel and a Japanese ceremony room.
If you need to plan a meeting, the hotel offers meeting consultants who will assist you with the details, but if your trip to Tokyo doesn’t involve a meeting or if you plan on staying an extra day or two, the hotel …read more

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Do you like your sushi fresh? I mean straight off the boat fresh? Then you must go to Sushizanmai in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tsukiji receives about 4,000 tons of fish and vegetables a day and some of that goes straight to Sushizanmai. You can’t get any fresher than that!
Upon arriving at the restaurant we were warmly greeted by a cheerful, apron clad, standing outside the restaurant clapping her hands and saying “irashai!” or welcome. We were quickly ushered in to a table on the main …read more

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