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Category: Tokyo Walking

  • New Art Space Tokyo Site Offers Art Maps

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    Chin Music Press has made a major update to the promotional site for ART SPACE TOKYO, now including a section that will offer the art maps found in the book as downloadable PDFs (a new one every two weeks or so). The maps are absolutely beautiful, and it’s great that they’re offering them for download…

  • Tokyology

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    The latest episode of Boing Boing TV covers TOKYOLOGY, a documentary that explores a few aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture. The full documentary can be purchased online here.

  • PingMag: Tokyo’s Retrogaming Bars

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    PingMag takes us on a tour of Shinjuku’s retrogaming themed bars (8-bit Cafe and 16 Shots).

  • I Love Nakameguro

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    Following last week’s post about Nakameguro and whether it’s a hip neighborhood or not, I feel like I need to post a follow-up, since I think a lot of people have gotten the wrong impression regarding my feelings on the area. I love Nakameguro, it’s an area I like to go to and spend time…

  • PingMag: Omotesando Architecture

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    PingMag takes us on an architectural tour of Omotesando, the first in a series.

  • Tokyo Realtime

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    It’s finally time to start revealing info about the project I’ve been working on with White Rabbit Press for the past couple of months. TOKYO REALTIME is going to be a series of audio guided walking tours taking you through various neighborhoods of the city. First up, Kabukicho! You can visit the teaser site and…

  • Nakameguro Not that Hip

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    Following the publication of NEW YORK TIMES’s Nakameguro style map (“Hip Nippon”), Marxy goes out and says what a lot of us know to be true: Nakameguro simply isn’t the hip neighborhood everyone wants it to be (not anymore at least).

  • PingMag: The Ghetto

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    PingMag heads out to Shin-Okubo to cover The Ghetto, a former love hotel that was turned into a sort of skater cultural center and gallery space.