After you pay

From payment to a guide in your pocket.

The moment you pay, this is exactly what happens — every step, the timing, and how to open your guide. You never have to chase anything or wonder where things stand. The whole flow lives right here.

  1. Step 01

    You pay — and get a confirmation right away

    A confirmation lands in your inbox with a short intake form. You tell me about your trip — the shape of it, who’s coming, the constraints that matter, and what you’re drawn to. That’s the only thing I need from you.

  2. Step 02

    I build your first draft within 48 hours

    I craft it by hand — routed around your body and your pace, chosen by taste, not by ranking. No forms to fill in the meantime, no waiting on hold. When it’s ready, it comes to you.

  3. Step 03

    You receive it two ways — a web link and a PDF

    An interactive web link that opens instantly on any phone or laptop, works offline, and lets you tap through weather, maps and details — and a PDF you can print, save and keep forever. Same guide, both formats. More on why, just below.

  4. Step 04

    Up to three rounds of revisions, until it's right

    Send one consolidated set of changes per round and I’ll refine it. It’s your trip — we shape it together until it feels like yours, not mine.

  5. Step 05

    You open it — no app, no login, nothing to install

    Tap the link and it’s there. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, fully offline, for the whole trip. Prefer paper? The PDF has everything too. How to do both is at the bottom of this page.

Step 3, in full

Two ways to read it. Both yours.

The web link lets you tap and interact— but if you’d rather not, the PDF has everything too. No app, no login, nothing to install either way.

Shiori

Made for M & L.

Edo, Still Being Served

藍と褪せた薔薇 — 江戸の名残

I made this for the two of you — a designer and a writer who almost never wake in the same city, here for three days to be in one place and to go deep into Edo. I built it in aizome indigo and a faded rose, because that is how I think of you: something very old and something passing, held together. I kept the days short and the walks slow on purpose. You came for intimacy and depth, not a checklist, and I wanted you to have hours where there is nowhere to be.

3-day guideCool spring · 8–16°C, late sakura8 stops
Tue · 30 Mar

Edo, Still Being Served

I open you on a plate of old Tokyo, walk you to where the city learned to mourn its animals, and leave you by the river with the whole evening to yourselves.

Loach houseEkōinSumida walk
  1. 01Lunch
    Ryōgoku Dozeu Kikyōya

    両国どぜう桔梗家Ryōgoku Dozeu Kikyōya

    Reserve aheadI'll book the tatami room

    I wanted your first taste of Tokyo to be something that has refused to change. This wooden loach house at the foot of Ryōgoku Bridge has done one thing since 1933 — dojō simmered at your own table over a little brazier, the way Edo ate it, blanketed in sweet spring onion and a dusting of sanshō. They keep the old spelling, 'dozeu', on the sign. It is humble river food, not luxury, and that is exactly the point.

    Why this, for you · You wanted your modern eye to meet something that hasn't blinked in ninety years. This is Edo on a plate, still served the old way. Start here, the two of you, over one little pot.

    Where
    1-13-15 Ryōgoku, Sumida-ku
    Station
    JR Ryōgoku (west exit) · 5 min walk
    Hours
    11:00–14:00, 16:30–21:00 (L.O. 20:30) · closed Sun & holidays
    Cost
    ¥2,000–3,500 pp

    Comfort & access

    • Bring: Tatami seating — easy shoes, good socks
    • Cash: Carry cash to be safe
    • Restroom: Old wooden house — small facilities
    • Access: Floor seating; a few low steps
    8–16°C
    5 min walk to Ekōin — back toward the station
  2. 02Afternoon
    Ekōin Temple

    回向院Ekōin

    Walk-inno ticket, just come

    For centuries this temple has held memorial for the dead who had no one else to mourn them — and animals are counted among them. There is a hall here raised for the souls of countless creatures, and stones set for dogs, cats, horses, even small birds. I find it one of the gentlest places in the city. Come in from the loud street and the noise just falls away.

    Why this, for you · You carry a quiet fear of the goodbyes coming, and a Shiba you hope to bring home one day. This is where Edo learned to hold that grief gently, for animals too. Go, and sit with it a while.

    Where
    2-8-10 Ryōgoku, Sumida-ku
    Station
    JR Ryōgoku (west exit) · 3 min walk
    Hours
    09:00–17:00 · open daily
    Cost
    Free

    Comfort & access

    • Access: Flat, step-free grounds
    • Bring: A coin for incense, if you wish
    • Weather: Spring rain possible — pack a fold umbrella
    • Restroom: On the temple grounds
    8–16°C
    8 min walk to the Ryōgoku bridge and the riverside
  3. 03Early evening
    Sumida River Walk

    隅田川Sumidagawa

    Walk-inno plan, just walk

    The Sumida has carried this city since it was Edo — barges, fireworks, lovers, funerals, all of it. I'd start near the Ryōgoku bridge and drift upriver along the terraced walkway toward Asakusa as the light goes; the Skytree lifts on one bank, the old low town hums on the other. If the sakura is still holding, the trees lean right over the water near Sumida Park.

    Why this, for you · Two people who rarely get the same evening — take this one slowly, by the water, with nowhere to be and no one expecting you.

    Where
    Sumida riverside, Ryōgoku → Asakusa
    Station
    JR Ryōgoku to start · riverside path
    Hours
    Anytime · loveliest at dusk
    Cost
    Free

    Comfort & access

    • Bring: A warm layer — river wind bites at night
    • Access: Long flat walk; benches along the way
    • Weather: Cool ~8–12°C after dark
    • Cash: Coins for a hot canned coffee from a machine
    8–16°C
    Wind down here. Let the river end the day for you — no next stop tonight.
Wed · 31 Mar

Where the New Meets the Old

I put your hands into one of Japan's oldest colours, walk you to current art wearing an old bathhouse as its skin, and sit you both at a sumo man's table for dinner.

Indigo dyeBathhouse galleryChanko
  1. 01Morning
    Wanariya Aizome Studio

    和なり屋Wanariya

    Reserve aheadI'll book your slot by email

    Indigo is one of Japan's oldest crafts and still one of its most modern-looking — that deep aizome blue designers keep rediscovering generation after generation. At this little shitamachi atelier you don't just look at it; you tie and fold and plunge the cloth into the living vat yourself, and watch it oxidise from green to blue in the open air. You'll each make something to carry home.

    Why this, for you · A designer and a writer who believe taste grows by collision — here you don't just look at the old craft, you put your hands in the vat and pull up your own blue.

    Where
    1-8-10 Senzoku, Taito-ku
    Station
    Iriya (Hibiya) · 10 min · or TX Asakusa · 10 min
    Hours
    By reservation · email ahead in English
    Cost
    ¥2,500 handkerchief / ¥8,000 tee

    Comfort & access

    • Bring: Wear clothes you don't mind dyeing
    • Cash: Cash easiest for the workshop fee
    • Access: Small ground-floor studio
    • Restroom: On site
    8–16°C
    Hibiya Line Iriya → Ueno, then JR to Nippori · ~20 min
  2. 02Afternoon
    SCAI The Bathhouse

    スカイ ザ バスハウスSCAI The Bathhouse

    Walk-infree entry; check show dates

    This is the collision in one room: a century-old Yanaka public bathhouse, Kashiwayu, turned in 1993 into one of Tokyo's sharpest contemporary galleries. The white walls are spotless and current, but the curved bathhouse façade is still there, and the old geta lockers remain by the door. The new, wearing the old as its frame. Wander the lanes of Yanaka after — it's the most intact piece of low-town Tokyo left.

    Why this, for you · Exactly the collision you came for — current work hung in a room that spent a century holding steam and naked strangers.

    Where
    Kashiwayu-Ato, 6-1-23 Yanaka, Taito-ku
    Station
    JR Nippori (west exit) · 8 min walk
    Hours
    12:00–18:00 · closed Sun, Mon & holidays
    Cost
    Free

    Comfort & access

    • Access: One ground-floor room; Yanaka has slopes
    • Bring: Good shoes for wandering Yanaka after
    • Weather: Closed between shows — I'll confirm it's open
    • Restroom: Cafés nearby in Yanaka
    8–16°C
    Nippori → Ryōgoku by JR · ~20 min, before dinner
  3. 03Dinner
    Chanko Tomoegata

    ちゃんこ巴潟Chanko Tomoegata

    Reserve aheadI'll reserve a table for two

    Chanko is the hotpot that built the giants of sumo, and this Ryōgoku house was opened by a former wrestler in the neighbourhood where the sport still lives. A great iron pot of chicken-bone broth, vegetables and dumplings comes up at your table; the salt-base one, simmered for hours, is the one I'd order. It's communal, a little theatrical, and made for sharing.

    Why this, for you · Deep-rooted, communal, a little theatrical — a warm, shared table for two who don't get enough shared tables. Order one pot and reach into it together.

    Where
    2-17-6 Ryōgoku, Sumida-ku
    Station
    JR Ryōgoku (west exit) · 5 min walk
    Hours
    17:00–22:00 (L.O. 21:00) · open your Wed
    Cost
    ¥3,500–6,000 pp

    Comfort & access

    • Bring: Come hungry — portions are wrestler-sized
    • Cash: Cards usually fine; carry some cash
    • Access: Tatami and table seating available
    • Restroom: In the restaurant
    8–16°C
    Walk it off back to the river, or call it a night — tomorrow is the quiet one.
Thu · 1 Apr

The Beauty That's Passing

I give you one still hour in a garden made for exactly that, then stand you both under the last of the blossom and let mono no aware do the rest.

GardenLate sakura
  1. 01Late morning
    Kiyosumi-teien Garden

    清澄庭園Kiyosumi-teien

    Walk-intickets at the gate

    Clipped pines, named stones carried here from all over Japan, a stone lantern, a pond with a path of stepping stones laid just above the water — this is a stroll garden shaped to be exactly this still. Each stone has a name and a chosen place. I'd go slowly, let a turtle surface, and not talk much. It asks nothing of you, which is the rarest thing a place can offer.

    Why this, for you · The fashion world moves fast and so do your two lives; this is the antidote, and you both need it in the same hour, on the same stepping stones.

    Where
    3-3-9 Kiyosumi, Kōtō-ku
    Station
    Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Oedo/Hanzōmon) · 3 min
    Hours
    09:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30) · open daily
    Cost
    ¥150 pp

    Comfort & access

    • Access: Stepping stones uneven; a flat route exists
    • Weather: Loveliest in soft rain — bring an umbrella
    • Cash: Coins for the small entry fee
    • Restroom: By the entrance
    8–16°C
    Oedo Line Kiyosumi-shirakawa → Kuramae, walk to river · ~20 min
  2. 02Afternoon
    Sumida Park — Late Sakura

    隅田公園の桜Sumida-kōen no sakura

    Walk-ingo late afternoon into dusk

    Around 500 cherry trees line the river here, a hanami spot since the eighth shōgun Yoshimune had them planted in the early 1700s so ordinary townsfolk could see blossom too. Your dates fall right at the tail of the season — you may catch the last petals coming down over the water, or the first green if it has turned. Either way is the lesson. The Japanese have a word for the ache of how briefly the blossom lasts: mono no aware, the tender sadness of things that pass.

    Why this, for you · You live with the knowledge that the things you love don't stay — the pets, the time together, the trip itself. This is the country that turned that exact ache into its highest idea of beauty. Stand under it together, whatever it's doing.

    Where
    Sumida Park, Asakusa side, Taito-ku
    Station
    Asakusa (Ginza/Asakusa lines) · 3 min walk
    Hours
    Anytime · lantern-lit after dark in season
    Cost
    Free

    Comfort & access

    • Weather: Late sakura — petals or early green, ~8–16°C
    • Access: Flat riverside paths the whole way
    • Bring: A warm layer for the lit-up evening
    • Cash: Cash for festival food stalls in season
    8–16°C
    Stay until the lanterns come on. End the trip here, by the river, the way it began.

What I’d pack for you

  • On Cloudmonster

    Stylish but cushioned — Edo backstreets and craft studios, on your feet all day.

  • Insta360 + your iPhone

    The Insta360 for the torii corridors; your iPhone for the still rooms.

  • Montbell Versalite shell

    Featherweight, packs to a fist — for the late-March showers.

Tell me what you already pack, and I'll match the rest.

One honest note

One honest note from me: I can book the tatami room, the chanko table, and your indigo slot, but late sakura keeps its own calendar — your dates sit right at the edge, so you may meet petals or the first green, and I've written the trip to be beautiful either way. SCAI closes between exhibitions, so I'll confirm it's open on your Wednesday and have a backup Yanaka lane ready if it isn't. Everything here is walkable and slow on purpose; these three days are yours.

— Made by hand for you both, in Tokyo. Félix

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The web link

Interactive, and offline

  • Opens instantly in any browser — iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows.
  • Add it to your home screen and it works with no signal, all trip.
  • Tap through the day: maps, weather, transit and details.
  • Nothing to download or sign into.

The PDF

Easy to print & keep

  • Everything the web version has, on the page.
  • Print it, save it, archive it — it's yours to keep.
  • A calm, paper option if you'd rather not tap.
  • Works anywhere a PDF does.

↑ A real guide — scroll and tap inside the phone

Step 5, in full

How to open and use it.

Three simple things — none of them technical. If you can open a link, you can do all of this.

1

Open the link

Tap the link I send you. Your guide opens straight away in the browser you already have — no account, no install.
2

Add to Home Screen

On iPhone: tap Share → Add to Home Screen. Now it opens like an app and works fully offline — perfect for the plane and for spotty signal abroad. (Android: ⋮ → Add to Home screen.)
3

Or save the PDF

Prefer paper? Download the PDF from the same message, then print it or keep it on your device. Everything’s in there too.

My delivery promise

Once you’ve paid, you never have to chase anything.

  • First draft in 48 hoursYou'll have something real in your hands, fast — not weeks of silence.
  • Delivered two waysAn interactive web link and a PDF, every time. Whichever suits you.
  • Three rounds of revisionsWe refine it together until it's genuinely right.
  • Opens on any device, offlinePhone or laptop, no app, no login — and no signal needed on the trip.

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