Long distance anniversary gift for your boyfriend in Los Angeles when you are in Tokyo

8 long distance gift ideas for your boyfriend in Los Angeles

1. A pixel game you can play together over a call Our product

   oin turns your story into a small 2D pixel game with him as the main character, generated from an authorized photo, plus two custom NPCs made from authorized photos with consent. Two letters from you open and close it, a 5-question quiz about your life apart and together rewards flowers for correct answers, and the final level is set in Almaty, Kazakhstan; New York and Tokyo are coming soon. It plays in a browser with no install, is usually emailed within an hour and costs $29.90. See how it works →

2. A Wi-Fi photo frame

   A frame you can send photos to from your phone, so a new picture appears on his shelf every day. Brands such as Aura and Skylight make them. Around $100-200.

3. A year of postcards

   One postcard a week from wherever you are, posted to him. Cheap, slow and kept. Around $10-30.

4. A star map of the night you met

   A framed sky from the night you met, posted to him. Order two weeks ahead for an international parcel. Around $25-60.

5. A book for two

   Buy the same book, read a chapter a week and talk about it on a call. An e-book arrives instantly. Around $10-30.

6. A shared playlist

   A playlist where each of you adds a song every week, and you listen to it on a call. It costs nothing.

7. “Open when” letters

   Ten envelopes for moments: open when you miss me, when you have a bad day, when you cannot sleep. Post them or photograph and send each one. Around $5-20.

8. Cook the same recipe

   Pick a recipe, buy the ingredients and cook it together on a video call. Eat at the same time, in different kitchens. Around $15-40.

Tokyo to Los Angeles: the time difference

Los Angeles is about 17 hours behind Tokyo, so 8 pm in Los Angeles is roughly 1 pm in Tokyo. The gap shifts by an hour for part of the year when the clocks change.

With so many hours between you, spontaneous calls are rare. Schedule the reveal for a weekend morning on one side and an evening on the other.

What a parcel across the border costs you

A parcel from Tokyo to Los Angeles crosses a border, so allow one to three weeks and check customs rules for food, liquids and anything with a battery. A digital gift has none of that.

Buying for your boyfriend

Gifts for a boyfriend work when they match what he actually uses. Notice what he already has and what he keeps mentioning.

If he says he wants nothing, choose something he would not buy himself.

If your anniversary is tomorrow

If the date crept up on you, Gift cards, flowers and a personalized game arrive fast and an oin game is usually emailed within an hour of payment. Add a dinner booking and the evening is covered.

Anniversaries reward memory over price. Pick a detail from the first year, the first trip or the first fight, and build the gift around it.

Opening it together on a call

Pick a slot when you are both free, send the link and stay on the call while he plays. The quiz makes a good conversation, because only the two of you know the answers.

The final level you can play today is set in Almaty, Kazakhstan; a final level in New York or Tokyo is coming soon.