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Category: Tokyo Walking
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This Week at Gridskipper
Marronnier Gate Potage Patisserie The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel Akihabara’s Bandage Girls You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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Bespoke Tokyo in Time
Charles Spreckley and Nicole Fall’s Bespoke Tokyo concierge service gets coverage in this week’s issue of TIME (no, I didn’t write it). You can read it online here. Update: Read more about what a Bespoke Tokyo tour is like in this piece, from THE OBSERVER.
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Tokyo Subway Maps for the iPhone
Sure, the iPhone isn’t yet available in Japan, and it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting it anytime soon, but if your passion for one has led you to follow the import/unlock route (or you brought one along on a trip) then here are some iPhone-formatted maps of Tokyo’s subway and JR lines ready for…
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Tokyo Top 5
MoCo Loco is currently running a top 5 series, where the site’s contributors were invited to list 5 favorite spots in the city where they reside. Mine is up, and longtime readers probably won’t be surprised much: Ginza Graphic Gallery, Ootoya, Cafe Pause, MUJI Yurakucho, and Junkudo.
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Style Studio in Aoyama and Nakameguro
Style.com has some videos up on Aoyama and Nakameguro (select the different areas from the navigation bar at the bottom of the page).
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Meiji Street
Yes, another shot taken today with my new camera, this time on Meiji street, down the hill from Ikebukuro station, heading towards Gokokuji.
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Kanda River
Another shot taken today with my new camera, this time of Kanda River. It’s a from the spot where I took that huge photostitch I posted in the other post. I’m really enjoying shooting in widescreen mode as well.
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Minami-Ikebukuro Park
Another photostitch experiment I did today with my new camera (this is actually made up of the first 4 pictures I took with it) is my favorite hangout these days, Minami-Ikebukuro park. You can see a larger version here. Recognize that bike on the right? Yup, that’s my MUJI bike.
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My Private Tokyo: Pocket Parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro
Here’s the segment I did for NHK World’s TOKYO EYE program, as part of their “My Private Tokyo” series, on the pocket parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro (I wrote about the show here, and have photos of each here). As you can see, the idea here was to be a bit more wacky, which helps explain my,…
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Nylon TV in Tokyo
For their MySpace-themed issue, NYLON have prepare a few episodes of NYLON TV. One of them covers Tokyo, and features Kiiiiiii as well as a Shibuya/Harajuku walkabout. The show also uses a lot of Shugo Tokumaru tracks as BGM.