Globe Guide Hub is a small independent travel site. We publish guides to Japan and Türkiye, and we have one editorial commitment that shapes everything else: we would rather tell you what we could not verify than print a confident number we cannot stand behind.
That sounds like a small thing. In travel writing it turns out to be most of the job.
The problem we are trying to solve
Travel guides go stale in a particular way. Nobody lies. A price gets published, other sites copy it, the underlying thing changes, and the copies do not. Ten years later a hundred pages confidently recommend a museum that has been demolished.
That is not a hypothetical. The Antalya Museum closed in July 2025 and the building has since been torn down, and almost every English-language guide still calls it the city’s must-see. Kyoto’s one-day bus pass was withdrawn in 2024 and guides still tell you to buy it. Cleopatra’s Antique Pool at Pamukkale was shut for sixteen months, and articles published during that closure describe swimming in it.
What we actually do
We check prices, hours and rules against official sources before publishing. For Türkiye that means the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s museum portal, the Official Gazette, the state meteorological service, TCDD, and provincial governorships. For Japan, the equivalent operators and municipal sources. Then UNESCO and IUCN where relevant. Then the press. Then everything else.
We date everything. Every guide carries the month it was verified and the exchange rate we used.
We publish the denominator. When we say balloons in Cappadocia are frequently cancelled, we give you the official count of mornings flown — 90 out of 181 in the first half of 2026 — rather than an operator’s marketing figure.
We tell you when a saving is not a saving. The Aegean museum pass loses money on a three-day Ephesus trip. The Cappadocia museum pass usually loses money too. The Bosphorus ferry beats every cruise sold in Istanbul. We say so, including when it costs us a commission.
What we do not claim
We do not manufacture first-hand experience. If you read a sentence on this site that says we did something, we did it. Where our knowledge comes from official sources and research rather than from standing in the place, the writing reflects that — you will find judgements, comparisons and verified figures, not invented anecdotes about a bus we never caught.
This is a deliberate choice and it costs us something. Invented colour reads well. It is also the single easiest way for a travel site to be caught out, and it treats readers as marks rather than as people planning a trip with their own money.
We do not pretend to certainty we lack. Some Turkish government price lists are genuinely difficult to reach from outside the country. When we cannot confirm a figure against the official tariff, we mark it as corroborated-but-unconfirmed rather than presenting it as fact. Several of our pages carry confidence ratings for exactly this reason.
Where the money comes from
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you book through one, we earn a small commission and you pay exactly the same price.
No brand pays for placement, for a favourable write-up, or for inclusion in a ranking. Every price on this site was researched independently of any commercial relationship, and we routinely recommend the free or cheaper option — the public ferry over the cruise, the train over the transfer, the individual ticket over the pass — where that is the better answer.
If we ever cannot recommend something honestly, we leave it out rather than writing around it.
Corrections
We make mistakes. When we find them, we fix them and we say what was wrong.
Recently: we described İzmir’s public transport as distance-based when the core network is flat-fare, and we misread a UNESCO passage about bathing at Pamukkale. Both were caught in review before publication and corrected, and both are listed openly in our guide to what English-language sources get wrong about Türkiye.
If you find something wrong here — a price that has moved, a place that has closed, a rule that has changed — tell us. We will correct it with a date rather than quietly editing it away.
Where we cover
Japan — Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Kobe, Yokohama, and the country as a whole.
Türkiye — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, Ephesus and İzmir, and Pamukkale.
We add destinations slowly and finish them properly. A half-covered destination helps nobody.