King Kogi

Welcome to your FREE guide to Yokohama, Japan. 
Or as I call it, "the PG-13 Las Vegas of Japan". 

This area has activities for all ages: 

🛍️ 🎎 manga and anime shopping spots
🖼️ 🎡 museums and theme parks
🌳⛩️  parks and gardens
🌇🏙  incredible views of Yokohama
☕️🍮 coffee and dessert
🍶🍜 izakayas and ramen

All locations in this guide are featured in the
 "10 Things to Do in Yokohama" video on King Kogi YouTube, as well as the "Yokohama Tours" King Kogi video.

I've added a few extra locations as well as a list of hotels that I recommend which are in the area.

Bonus Tips: 

-CosmoWorld is fun during the day, but many couples go at night for a more thrilling experience

-Landmark Plaza and Queen's Square Mall have coin  lockers so you can store your shopping bags. You can use your subway card to pay for them as well.

-Red Brick Warehouse is always open for shopping, but they change the event in the plaza space. Check their website or instagram to see what they are planning.

-Chinatown is known for street food, but the food choices can get a bit repetitive. Check out the restaurants as well!

-Yokohama Station is great fun in the evening. It's loaded with bars, izakayas, karaoke, arcades, record bars, ramen shops, and more.

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Minato Mirai 21, Nishi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yokohama Tours: Day and Night Adventures

Tokyo's most epic all-in-one digital guide includes over 100 places to help you get the most out of your trip to Japan.  As a bonus, I've included travel advice, links, and basic Japanese phrases.

Whether you're travelling solo, with a group, or as a family, this guide has something for everyone.

🌳⛩️  shrines, temples, parks, and gardens
🗼 🌇 incredible views of Tokyo
🍛🍣  Japanese restaurants with English menus
🍺🍗  outdoor eating spots
🖼️ 🎨 museums and art galleries
🛍️ 🎎 manga and anime shopping
🐢☄️  Pokemon Centers 
🎠🎟️  theme parks and popular exhibits
🛍️🏬  the best locations for souvenir shopping


Tokyo, Japan

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Mega Guide (+100 Spots)

If you’re looking to explore a more local Tokyo neighbourhood with a bohemian feel, this guide is for you.

🔇🙉 This area has a residential, relaxed vibe. It is great for people who don't enjoy loud, downtown noises and flashy neon lights. 

I’ve included over 40 places to explore in this trendy, quirky, and hipster neighbourhood just west of Shibuya. And I've also added a newly built onsen/ryokan hotel which is super rare to find in Tokyo.

🚇 three station guides for travel and exploration
☕️ cute cafes and coffee shops
🌱 vegan & vegetarian spots
🌅 scenic spots and local parks
🍮 desserts 
🍛 Japanese curry
🍶 izakayas  
🍣 sushi
🍤 tempura
🍕 stone oven pizzeria 
🌮 international food
🍺 craft beer & friendly social bars

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🗺🚶‍♀️All the spots provided in this guide are in walking distance of each other. You can explore leisurely at your own pace without relying on trains. 

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 👀 🍲 There are plenty of great spots for people watching, strolling, and food. Small shops run by local owners outweigh the chains, so all the spots have a much more personal feel.

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This guide includes activities and shops located around three train stations and neighbourhoods: 

1) Umegaoka Station
2) Setagaya-Daita Station 
and the area leading into 
3) Shimokitazawa Station 

You can spread out a few days of adventuring with the amount of spots on this list, or you can plan for a full afternoon of fun, and then into the evening with the izakaya and bar listings.

⭐️ All locations featured in the Tokyo Tours video, "Curry, Coffee, and Cream Puffs" are included in this guide. Places in the video will be marked with a ⭐️ = featured in Tokyo Tours

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Hipster Heaven: Setagaya-Daita to Shimokitazawa

This guide is packed with over 50+ hidden gems and deep finds:  from coffee ☕ to cute cafes 🍵 savoury meals 🍜 to sweet treats 🍰 and a few popular vegan restaurants too!

🦑 If you’d like to try Osaka's most popular foods: udon and takoyaki, there are multiple locations provided.

This guide also includes interesting activities, shopping arcades to visit, hotel recommendations, local neighbourhoods to explore, and more.

Osaka, Japan

Osaka Tours - Hidden Gems and Food Guide

🗺 This guide includes over 40 places to explore in THREE super popular neighbourhoods: Shibuya, Daikanyama, and Ebisu.

This guide focuses on:
-the lesser travelled side of Shibuya
- shows you the backstreets of Daikanyama
- the trendy neighbourhood of Ebisu

This is a build-your-own adventure tour, which means it is flexible and it helps you plan for multiple days and nights in Tokyo!
 
· it offers over 40 lesser-known locations for you to explore
· it includes daytime and nighttime spots
· helpful notes on train stations, including exits and tips
· large range of location types: 
☕️ coffee shops 🍜 ramen 🍶 izakayas 
🍙 Japanese comfort food 🍣 sushi
🍷 trendy bistros 🍮 dessert 🍺 craft beer, secret bars, jazz and indie clubs, and more!

Tokyo Tours: Shibuya, Daikanyama, Ebisu 

I spent years living in this West Tokyo area called Kichijoji. It has it all: sprawling parks, shopping, standing bars, lantern packed alleys, and tons of local feeling. 

This is a free guide, and a peek into what my paid guides have to offer. 

Information about the popular local spots, off the beaten path finds, and cafes, coffee shops, street food, desserts... there is something for everybody! 

You can use this guide over a few days or multiple visits to Japan, there is just too much to tackle in one day.

Musashino

Mitaka

✨ FREE GUIDE ✨ Kichijoji 吉祥寺 (West Side Tokyo)


A digital travel guide containing vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, organic, and gluten-free restaurants in Japan.

Majority of them are located in Tokyo, but I've also included some excellent spots in Kyoto and Fukuoka.

🌟 I’ve organized each restaurant with a convenient category that explains what type of food they serve

🌟 I’ve also included links to their websites/social media.

This guide contains 50 locations with many varieties of food, including: 
 
🍰🍩 desserts 
🍜🥢 ramen
🌮🍔 international cuisine
🍛🍱 Japanese food
☕️🥪 cafes and bakeries
💖💰 higher end restaurants for a special meal

📌 This guide also includes a zero-waste Guesthouse that has an earth-friendly plant-based café and bar, that sells by weight, without trash.

💕✨ I've also created a FREE vegan and vegetarian Japanese word and phrase list to help you navigate Japan, so you can just show people your phone, and point. 

I’ve also including a handy Gluten Free phrase and help guide, too.

My hope is that even if you don't purchase my guide, these free phrase lists will at least help you! ✨


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Helpful Terms for Vegan and Vegetarian travellers: 

The more commonly used terms:

vegetarian: ベジタリアン (beh-ji-tarian)
vegan: ヴィーガン (vui-gan) OR ビーガン (bee-gan)

The more traditional terms:

Buddhist vegan: 完全菜食主義者 (kanzen saishoku shugisha) 
vegetarian 菜食主義者 (saishoku shugisha) 


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NOTE: Even if you’re vegan, it’s good to start with this phrase, “beh-ji-tarian des” (I’m vegetarian) since it is already rare to be a vegetarian in Japan.  

Saying you’re vegan will go over many people's heads, so if they say that they "can’t serve a vegetarian", they definitely can not serve a vegan.

Some helpful phrases you can keep handy on your phone:

I don’t eat meat, seafood, eggs and dairy products
肉とシーフードと卵と乳製品を食べません
(o-niku, shifudo, tamago, to nyūseihin wo tabemasen)

I don’t eat pork
豚肉を食べません 
(buta niku wo tabemasen)

I don’t eat chicken
鶏肉を食べません 
(tori niku wo tabemasen)

I don’t eat fish stock
魚のだしを食べません (sakana no dashi wo tabemasen)

I don’t eat eggs
卵を食べません 
(tamago wo tabemasen)

I don’t eat cheese
チーズを食べません 
(chizu wo tabemasen)


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How to express having an allergy:

I am allergic to shrimp
エビのアレルギーがあります
(ebi no arerugi ga arimasu)

For example:
I am allergic to _____________________

 _____________________ の アレルギーがあります
_____________________ no arerugi ga arimasu


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GLUTEN FREE TIPS:

Many Japanese dishes contain soy sauce and/or miso, and most of them contain gluten.

I am allergic to wheat
小麦アレルギーです
(Komugi arerugi desu)

麩 質 Fushitsu is the Japanese word for gluten

グ ル テ ン  sometimes it is written in Katakana, as “gu-ru-ten”

Things to avoid:

小麦, 小麦 粉 
Komugi is wheat, komugiko is wheat flour.

麦 Mugi is barley, usually in mugicha, barley tea. Or rye, called rye-mugi (ライ麦).

醤 油 Shoyu, or soy sauce

味噌  Miso paste

水 飴 Mizuame, or malt syrup, and barley malt syrup are in many sweets

Helpful Phrases:

I cannot eat food that contains gluten. So I cannot eat anything made with wheat, rye or barley. That means that I cannot eat soy sauce which contains wheat, or miso that contains wheat.

私はグルテンを含む食品が食べられません。小麦・大麦・ライ麦が使われているものは全部です。そのため、小麦を原料としている醤油や味噌もいっさい口にできません。

I have a serious disease called celiac disease, so that I cannot eat food that contains gluten. I cannot eat anything made with wheat, rye, or barley.  I cannot eat soy sauce which contains wheat or miso that contains wheat.

私は、グルテンの摂取によって発症する「セアリック病」という深刻な病気をもっています。そのため、小麦・大麦・ライ麦が使われている食品は食べられません。小麦を原料としている醤油や味噌もいっさい口にできません。

Does this contain wheat?
これは小麦を使っていますか。

Does this contain barley?
これは大麦を使っていますか。

Does this contain soy sauce?
これは醤油を使っていますか。

When you go to a chicken grilling shop, they can dip it in a sauce which contains soy sauce, but you can ask them to do the salt sprinkled version instead:

Can you do shio-yaki (salt-flavored)?
塩だけで焼いてもらえますか。
