About tokyosuki
How the tokyosuki editorial team builds Tokyo guides, chooses sources, and keeps volatile travel facts current.
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- ✓tokyosuki — 東京好き, literally “love Tokyo” — is an independent editorial guide to the many sides of one enormous city.
- ✓Our editorial premise is “a hundred Tokyos in one city”: we help you find the side you came for rather than pretending anyone sees all of it in one trip.
- ✓Everything is written and edited by the tokyosuki editorial team, an organisation — we do not invent personal bylines or fake “local expert” personas.
- ✓We don’t fabricate facts: prices, opening hours and closed days change constantly, so we phrase them as guidance, point you to the official source, and tell you to verify before you go.
- ✓Guides are organised by the six facets — food, art & design, old-town & temples, pop-culture, parks & seasons, nightlife — plus neighbourhoods, day trips, where to stay, itineraries, the seasons and the practical essentials.
- ✓Where we earn a commission from a booking link, it never changes what we recommend; see our editorial policy for the full standards.
What tokyosuki is
tokyosuki is an independent, editorial travel guide to Tokyo. The name is a small bilingual joke we mean sincerely: 東京好き (Tōkyō-zuki) reads as “Tokyo-loving” — a fondness for the city built into the brand itself. We are not a booking engine or a listings directory; we are a guide in the older sense, written to help you make good decisions about a place that can overwhelm even seasoned travellers.
Tokyo is the reason this site exists in the shape it does. It is not one city but many — neon Shinjuku and temple Asakusa, refined Ginza and geeky Akihabara, the quiet old lanes of Yanaka and the glass towers of Marunouchi — and no one sees all of it in a single trip. So instead of a flat list of “top things to do,” we built the guide around the idea of <em>a hundred Tokyos in one city</em>: pick the sides that fit the trip you actually want, and let the rest wait for next time.
Who writes it
Everything here is written and edited by the <strong>tokyosuki editorial team</strong>. That is a deliberate choice. A lot of travel content invents a single photogenic “local expert” to sign the articles; we don’t. The work is collaborative and continuously revised, so we attribute it to the organisation rather than to a fabricated personal byline or made-up credentials. When you read “we,” it is the team and the standards below — not a persona.
Our job is editorial judgement: deciding what is worth your limited time, how to sequence a day so you are not crossing the city twice, and when to be honest that something famous is also exhausting, crowded, or simply not for everyone. We would rather tell you a beloved sight is a slow, stepped climb best skipped on a tight schedule than pretend everything is unmissable.
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How we build the guides
Each guide is researched against primary sources — official venue, museum, garden, shrine, transport-operator and tourism-board pages — and written to answer a real planning question rather than to hit a keyword. We aim for depth over volume: enough specific, decision-ready detail to actually plan with, and clear internal links to the neighbouring guides so one page leads sensibly to the next.
Every guide carries an at-a-glance facts card near the top — the essentials such as nearest station and line, rough time needed, best season, and who it suits — so you can size up a place in seconds before reading on. Photography across the site is sourced under open licences with attribution; it illustrates the city honestly rather than dressing it up.
Facts, dates and the things that change
Tokyo changes fast, and travel facts go stale faster than anything: prices rise, hours shift by season, museums close for renovation, and festival and cherry-blossom dates move every year. We treat that head-on. We do not invent precise prices, opening hours, closed days or addresses; where a current figure matters we point you to the authoritative source and ask you to verify before you go, and we phrase timing in evergreen terms — “late March to early April, varies yearly” rather than a hard date that will be wrong by next spring.
We surface a real “last updated” date on guides so you can judge how fresh a page is, and we revise pages as things change rather than letting them drift. If you spot something out of date or wrong, the contact details and our correction process are in the editorial policy — we would genuinely like to know.
Finally, transparency on money: some links to hotels, passes or experiences may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. That never decides what we recommend or how we rank it; the recommendation comes first and the link follows. The full version of every standard described here lives in our editorial policy.