koko
Sees the recommended route and immediately chooses the street going the other direction.
Energetic, unconventional and not particularly interested in doing what they're supposed to do. You like Tokyo loud and unofficial: whatever's down the street the guidebook told you to skip.
Your four letters
OffbeatDiscovery
Prefers local, niche, unexpected or lesser-known experiences.
The other side is C, Classic.
SpontaneousPlanning
Likes flexibility, improvisation and changing plans.
The other side is P, Planned.
Tokyo, for an OSBN
Where to stay
Shimokitazawa. Live houses, basements and nobody telling you what to do.
Ameyoko, Ueno
A shouting, elbowing market under the train tracks. Eat standing up.
A Shimokitazawa live house
A basement, a band you've never heard of, a drink ticket. Walk in.
Koenji
Tokyo's punk neighbourhood. Follow the noise.
What to skip
The line. Any line.
Your people, and your problem
MICHIKUSA道草
“The detour is usually the point.”
Michikusa literally means eating the grass by the roadside: what a horse does when it wanders off the route. Michikusa travelers treat the plan as a suggestion and the side street as the destination.
How to travel: Book the bed and almost nothing else. Pick a station you've never heard of, get off, and walk. Tokyo is one of the safest and densest cities on earth to be aimless in.
Not sure this is you?
Two minutes, no wrong answers. Koko works out your four letters and picks places in Tokyo to match.
Take the quiz