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Category: Stores
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Shibuya Apple Store
The following Japanese site reports that this Summer will see the opening of a new Apple Store in Shibuya. I still think they should have gone for Harajuku or Aoyama though. Link via Patrick.
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Oazo
The other day I had a chance to check out the fairly recent Oazo shopping complex near Tokyo station, not far from the Marunouchi Building. Its biggest feature is the huge Maruzen bookstore. I must admit being quite impressed with the foreign book section on the top floor. Very nice selection of design and architecture…
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Graniph in Ikebukuro
For all you Graniph fans, please take note that they’ve now opened a shop in Ikebukuro’s Parco (6th floor). That’s going to be dangerous for me — I’m quite addicted to their tees.
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Gas Happenings
A few Gas related happenings for the month. First, they have an exhibition, “Hello Gas Art,” happening at Harajuku’s Beams T until February 20. Lots of posters by artists such as //DIY, Event10, Kate Gibb, Genevieve Gauckler, Marok, Maya Wild, SKISM, So_Me, Will Sweeney, and Iguchi Hiroshi. The works on display will also be for…
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Nagoya Apple Store
The 3rd Apple Store in Japan, this time in Nagoya, opens this Saturday. The grand opening date of the Nagoya Sakae (Japan) store–Jan. 22nd –has been posted on Apple’s Japanese language Web page, but (as of 3 a.m.) isn’t mentioned on either the English language version of the store page, or Apple’s main Retail page.…
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Logos Gallery Book Bazar
The Logos Gallery, in the basement of Shibuya’s Parco Part 2, is having a big foreign book bazar, with discounts going from 20 to 80% off. The sale ends January 11. They usually have a lot of their design books on sale during these, so good time to grab those really expensive ones. Link via…
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ABC Foreign Book Bargain Sale!
As the article says, it’s been a crazy year for the Aoyama Book Center this year, but the good news is that things are back to normal, and it’s time for a foreign book bargain sale! It was a year of calamities in Japan, and Aoyama Book Center makes no exception there. But as we…
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Tokyo Bookstores
I was looking through book/magazine distributor Yohan‘s website, and found this section where they review/point out various nice-looking cafe/bookstores in the city. Pictured above is Book Club Kai. Update (16/08/27): The photo is no longer available.
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Bape in NY
Marxy points us to a NEW YORK TIMES article on the opening of the new A Bathing Ape shop in New York, and then goes on to explain why Bape is dead (or at least isn’t the Bape of old anymore).