Alex Carter

Contributing Editor — Activities & Classes

Alex Carter covers the hands-on side of Tokyo for The Tokyo Doer — the classes, workshops, studios and clubs you actually participate in, reviewed by going and doing them. (Placeholder byline — see PRE-LAUNCH.md; the seed post is first-hand and needs the real author before launch.)

Posts

• How to Pick a Tokyo Cooking Class That's Actually Worth It

  2026-07-04 · Alex Carter

  Tokyo has hundreds of cooking classes and the quality is all over the map. Here's how to tell a hands-on class from a watch-and-nibble one, what a fair price looks like, and which format fits what you actually want to walk away knowing.

• Running and Munching in Tokyo

  2026-07-01 · Alex Carter

  The Tokyo Doer premise is simple — we go and do the thing, then tell you what it was like. This time: a mochi-pounding class I actually took (the munching), and a race I'm very much still at the start of training for (the running).