by josephbautista | Oct 21, 2018 | Travel Tips | 0 Comments
Guide to Shinto IntroductionTo understand the original religion of Japan, the Shinto, one must throw away all monotheistic concepts and religions like Christianism. It’s always a difficult matter to explain to visitors and people that ask me about Shinto, and assuming...
by josephbautista | Aug 12, 2018 | Travel Tips | 0 Comments
All you can do at conbini stores in Japan “Let’s go to the conbini”. It’s one of the most heard sentences since I’m in Japan. For almost every situation. Like the (wrong) saying that humans only use 10% of the brain potential, usually tourists only use the...
by josephbautista | Jun 24, 2018 | Giveaway, Travel Tips | 4 Comments
GPSMyCity subscription giveaway Up until recently, you could read and download some of my travel articles directly to your smartphone through GPSMyCity services. This has changed this year, to a fully yearly subscription system where you can download as many articles...
by josephbautista | Jun 3, 2018 | Hyped, Stories, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
Japan is one of the most desired and dreamed countries to live, that’s a fact. Constantly applying new regulations for long-term residents, students, and trying to open to highly skilled professionals, still Japan is not that friendly affordable for student pockets....
by josephbautista | Apr 22, 2018 | Hyped, Japan, Niigata, Things to do, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
The capital city of Niigata prefecture, in the northern coast of Japan may not be amongst the most popular destinations for tourists. The summer breeze, the seafood, the scenery, the crafts and sake breweries, just 2 hours shinkansen ride from Tokyo. Not enough...
by josephbautista | Aug 13, 2017 | Hyped, Stories, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
Almost every traveler has one, even I, that I’m going to complain about it. Not the selfie stick, but complain about the use people makes of it. If tourists were more conscious about their surroundings, then Japan wouldn’t have banned the use of selfie sticks in...
by josephbautista | May 21, 2017 | Travel Tips | 0 Comments
The convenience of being connected to our smartphones makes it easier for independent travelers to wander through a destination. The inconvenience is the need to be connected to the internet to use many of the apps. Sometimes we depend too much of the device and...
by josephbautista | Oct 23, 2016 | Hyped, Japan, Kyoto, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
Being the most important Shinto shrines, and famous for its “thousand gates” in Kyoto. Dedicated to Inari, the gods of rice and business. The popular believe amongst visitors is that, as its name implies from the Japanese “senbon torii”, there’s a thousand red gates...
by josephbautista | Oct 10, 2016 | Giveaway, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
With the launch of the new design for Hype in Tokyo, leaving behind the blog style, and more focused towards travelers, I’m glad to bring one of the features I’ve been working for the past months, the GPS-guided travel articles, in collaboration with GPSMyCity. To...
by josephbautista | Aug 7, 2016 | Harley Davidson, Japan, Kanagawa, Road Trip, Shizuoka, Travel Tips | 0 Comments
It finally happened, after all this years riding my Harley Davidson in Europe, and my trips to Japan, I could combine the two aspects of my trips for a weekend ride on the Central Japan roads. An experience that was for long time in my bucket list, and it’s still at...
Travel photographer and journalist. Degree in Tourism management and master's degree in Travel Journalism. Lived and studied in Tokyo for more than 2 years, where I started my blog Hype in Tokyo. I kept the name from that period in Tokyo for my travel projects as a memento of where it all started. 
