I also picked up the new issue of MASSAGE (3). Haven’t had time to read it yet, but it’s basically the same format, except that it now looks like a regular tabloid newspaper (no more glossy paper).
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
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the cover looks like snapazoo-figures :)
Hehehe…
Since I’m new to Tokyo I was wondering if you could recomend some place good to go shopping for magazines, like the ones you mention here on your site :)
Take care!
-h
If you’re looking for the Japanese design magazines I mention, that’s easy enough, as they’re usually carried in most big bookstores. The best (and cheapest) place for foreign magazines is Tower Records in Shibuya (on the 7th floor). I buy most of my magazines at Junkudo in Ikebukuro, since it’s close to where I live (it also happens to be one of the largest bookstores in the world, and they have a foreign magazine/book section of the 9th floor — the Japanese magazine section on the first floor carries all the magazines I talk about). Some nice places in Aoyama for magazines are ABC (Aoyama Book Center) and Nadiff.
That’s great! Thanks a bunch! Since I live in Shinjuku I guess I’ll check out the Shibuya store first. Junkudo sounds like an interesting place too, perhaps I’ll see you around…
Thanks again!
-h
Tower Records in Shinjuku also has a good magazine selection, though not as big as in Shibuya.