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Category: Tokyo Walking
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New Art Space Tokyo Site Offers Art Maps
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…
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Tokyology
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.
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PingMag: Tokyo’s Retrogaming Bars
PingMag takes us on a tour of Shinjuku’s retrogaming themed bars (8-bit Cafe and 16 Shots).
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PingMag: Omotesando Architecture
PingMag takes us on an architectural tour of Omotesando, the first in a series.
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Nakameguro Not that Hip
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).
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PingMag: The Ghetto
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.
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Claska Closed Until 2009
Another update on the Claska boutique hotel in Meguro: according to the W+K Tokyo blog, the planned renovations are going to take the entire year, with the re-opening happening in 2009.