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Category: Tokyo Walking

  • Tokyo Eye Takes on Nakameguro

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    The segment I did for the NHK program TOKYO EYE will air in this week’s episode (#016). In it, I cover a few favorite locations in Nakameguro that share the theme of mixed concepts for the “My Private Tokyo” corner. The places visited are Cow Books — it was the first time they ever permitted…

  • Pasmo Explained

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    Things are going to get a whole lot simpler come March 18 when it comes to riding the train, subway, or bus in Tokyo, since not only are all the private railways adopting a new Suica-like touch-and-go system called Pasmo, both JR’s card and the Pasmo will become interchangeable! Patrick explains it in more detail.

  • Wallpaper* City Guide: Tokyo

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    The other day I picked up the Tokyo edition of the recently launched “Wallpaper* City Guide” travel series from Phaidon. Looking at the format, I really like what they’ve done, releasing something affordable (only 1000 yen), and quite functional as well — they’ve really done a good job with the way the book gets divided,…

  • An Afternoon in Ikebukuro

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    I’ve done a lot of these “Afternoon” posts, but I think I’ve yet to write one for Ikebukuro, my hood, and so here is what amounts to a rather typical Saturday (or Sunday) with the wife. We started off yesterday by heading out around 13-14:00 to get lunch at Cafe Add+Ress inside Parco. We pretty…

  • A Day in Aoyama

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    Despite the craziness that was Tokyo Design Week — I think I’m currently suffering from design/exhibition burnout — I found myself in Aoyama yesterday just before lunch time for a meeting, and when that was over, I ended up walking around a bit and checking out a few things (my first thought was to just…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Floating Bar Jicoo Wireless in Tokyo You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • What’s Your Station?

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    Lisa points us to this site that sells key/phone straps featuring the station signs you see on all platforms. I’m totally getting an Ikebukuro one! Update: Here’s an English site that sells them.

  • An Afternoon in Tokyo

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    Notice how the title above doesn’t refer to a particular area? Well, that’s because this past Saturday I finally went ahead and did something I should have done ages ago: bought a new bike. Yes, it’s a Muji bike, the black sports one that has an 8-speed shifter (pictured above, but I also bought a…