The latest edition of This Week in Tokyo – a review of the Maction Planet week that was and a look ahead to what’s coming up in and beyond the city. Check out photos from our tours and read insights into our explorations as we get under the skin of the World’s Greatest Metropolis. This […]
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OnJapan CAFÉ, one of our favourite venues in Tokyo, has moved! Mac, Founder and Lead Guide of Maction Planet, was invited to the New ‘OnJapan CAFÉ &’ Opening Party. He gives us the inside scoop as to why the new location is Harajuku’s loss and Oku-Shibu’s gain. Managed by Yukiko Harada, the original OnJapan CAFÉ […]
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On Sunday 2 April 2017, Maction Planet and Shochu.Pro held a Cherry Blossom party, a hanami, in Yoyogi Park. The event was a sell-out success. We had guests from all over the world enjoying draft craft beer from Baird Beer and a selection of 10 different shochus curated by shochu expert Christopher Pellegrini. The weather […]
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Following the success of last year’s event, Maction Planet and Shochu.Pro are collaborating again to hold an exclusive hanami party to celebrate cherry blossom season in Tokyo. The party will be held in Yoyogi Park on Saturday 31 March 2018 from 12:00-16:00. Tickets to the event will include the following: Unlimited all-you-can-drink Shochu from a […]
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How better to spend a Friday night in Tokyo than with all-you-can-drink craft shochu, designing your own shochu bottle label in traditional shodo calligraphy style and hanging out with the amazing citizens of, and travellers to, The World’s Greatest Metropolis? That’s exactly what happened on 13 October 2017 at OnJapan Cafe, one of our favourite […]
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In the latest edition of “What the Tokyo Locals Do”, Mac describes an evening at the ‘Honkaku Shochu and Awamori – Taste The Spirit of Japan 2017’ hosted by the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association. Once again, we were able to give Maction Planet Tokyo Private Tour guests access to this industry event! Our guests […]
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Maction Planet Radio‘s new show, Mac On Tokyo, brings you the characters which make Tokyo the World’s Greatest Metropolis. In our first episode, Mac chats to Christopher Pellegrini, ‘The Shochu Whisperer’, CEO of Shochu.Pro. Chris is a true ambassador for Japan and its most popular home-grown spirit, shochu. He is an internationally recognized speaker and […]
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