my 2026 guide to tokyo (for people who don’t like crowds)
part 3 of my Tokyo series! This week I revisit my favourite food/drink/stores from this trip with a focus on less crowded spots — oh, and Squarespace discount: http://squarespace.com/furrylittlepeach
00:00 – intro
01:35 – food/drink
09:05 – bookstores
12:22 – stationery/art stores
15:04 – go see art!
16:49 – tokyo sketchbook/squarespace
17:48 – secondhand (thrift)
21:03 – travel tips
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19 Comments
Ever considering moving to Tokyo?
yay i love this!!!
Im leaving for tokyo in a week so this couldn't have come at a more perfect time ! Thank you for this ! 🖤🌸
Do u mind sharing the list of flea markets to visit in Tokyo? I m heading there in the first two weeks of December !
"Leave space for getting lost" – yes to this! Loving these videos Sha'an. Also – I enjoy a good utilitarian piece of stationery too. I love finding engineer computation notebooks and using them in unintended ways. Cracks me up that someone said they get the notebook you purchased for free at University. 😋
Putting all the recommendations into a google map list is how my wife and I have started trying to travel to new places.. makes it easier to walk around and then just see what we’ve ended up near to, and makes for many more happy accidents 😊 loved this! Also, the meerkat on a leash!? 😮
There is a funny magazine behind you. It says Toiletpaper 🧻🧻🧻 with a hamburger 🍔 on the cover 🤣🤣🤣
This is PERFECT FOR MEE
how much japanese do you guys speak/what level of japanese do you guys recommend for getting around?
girl, i trust you with my life!! these recs look awesome
I have a trip to Japan for my birthday later this year and I had already planned to watch some of your old Japan vlogs for inspo! This is perfect 😀 You're always spoiling us. Also had to update my comment to say that your hair is looking faaaaab in this video and that your "Ok Google" command turned on all my house lights tooooo
Thank you!
Love quiet spots. Also you seem so happy/glowing!
Serious FOMO/melancholy here as I probably won't get to go to Japan (old, broke) but I really enjoyed the vicarious experience and your recommendations. It's the little in betweens and stumbled upons that I still remember decades later from my travels. Your sketchbook is a delight – I so love the whole page scans – and I seriously feel you could publish it and it would sell. This old person who still takes the child-like and whimsical seriously would buy it, or art prints of whole pages, in a heart beat. Even as a purely money-making exercise if it were produced as a sticker book, Natalie Lete-style, it would go off. Thank you for sharing your art and your experiences, and thank you to Rocket for being up for being included.
Definitely my type of japan travel tips, I have my google maps open pinning your recommendations! Every time I go I visit sekaido, and then I sew so I go to Nippori to fill my suitcase with fabric! If you've never been to design festa expo you should really go one time when it is on, because it was amazing and so inspiring. My eyes got physically tired from looking at all the stalls! I agree about the small random experiences being more fun and memorable. My favourite memory from my last trip was renting a car with friends and stopping at a random suspension bridge in Kyushu to look at a beautiful waterfall, and suddenly a hair metal song started blasting through the loudspeaker – turns out the local tourism board commissioned it specially for the bridge😂
Also Hard-off is my dream place! Definitely had fun seeking them out in random other smaller Japanese cities, lots of good records for sale there too.
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely go back to this video once I booked my trip 😍 Do you know what Rocket’s favorite place is for analog film cameras? Would love it check it out!
The last time I went to Japan was 8yrs ago. It's gotten so much more crowded. I just did a month long trip in Feb, and I tried to avoid all the main spots. It's just not fun. I stayed in suburbs and wandered to local cafes and shops. It took a little longer to get to places but being the only foreigner around made it feel like the Japan I knew.
Definately hiring a car and visiting the hard to reach places next time. Also I went to Tokyo Flea Market from a recommendation of one of your previous videos and I didn't like it. Maybe one or 2 stalls of interesting things but it was mostly catering to tourists. Not sure why tourists would want to see things they can find at home 🤷🏻♂️
I love that you used an eyeliner to write it out rather than type it into the notes on your phone 😂 because I can FULLY relate to the idea that WRITING down ideas is better than typing them, like my brain processes the ideas better when I write them and creates sub-ideas but if I start typing, I'm immediately like 'this is not as interesting as I thought it was in my head'!