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Category: Tokyo Walking
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Graffiti in Sakuragicho
From the latest edition of the “Tokyo Initiator’s Diary” at REALTOKYO: After seeing the “Empty Garden 2” exhibition at Watari Museum I buy several books on graffiti at the “On Sundays” bookshop. From there I proceed to Sakuragicho to inspect some real graffities. There are a lot in this area, and some of them are…
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Toe in Koenji
Toe (of Groovisual Diary) has a great new post with loads of pics about a recent outing in Koenji.
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Orange in Tokyo
Online magazine ORANGE takes a tour of Tokyo. Not exactly “my Tokyo,” but it might still offer some suggestions for visitors to the city. A nice thing about ORANGE is that they also have a mobile version of their site (where I read the article).
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Dawn of the Shibuya-kei Dead
Thoughts on Shibuya, as Momus spends his last day in Tokyo. Now, my first reference to Shibuya-kei on my website came in September 1998, when I declared Shibuya-kei dead. Well, I may have been a bit premature. I come today to tell you that Shibuya-kei is no longer dead. Perhaps it never was, or perhaps…
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An Afternoon in Ginza, Yurakucho, and Marunouchi
Last Saturday I left early in the afternoon for Ginza to have a look at this month’s Ginza Graphic Gallery exhibition, “Graphic Wave 2004” (more here). After that, I slowly made my way to the Apple Store, comfortably walking in the middle of the street as it was closed off from car traffic. At the…
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An Afternoon in Aoyama
I leave in the middle of the afternoon, and take the subway to Aoyama, accompanying Yuko as she heads out to Todai. I decide to get off at the Gaienmae station, as there are a few things in the area I want to check out. Things don’t start off so well. I start by going…
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An Evening in Harajuku
We head out to Harajuku to check out the Placard#7 electronic music festival taking place in Yoyogi park. I especially want to be there for Momus’ set. On my way over, I get a call from Carsten, who having seen my post about going there, figures I would be a good person to contact to…
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An Afternoon in Nakameguro
I leave Ikebukuro early in the afternoon for an outing in Nakameguro. The first thing I do when arriving is to take out the issue of RES I brought with me, the one with the Superfuture map of Nakameguro, so I can find the Groovisions shop, GRV1788. As I slowly make my way there, I…