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Category: City Life

  • Desserts at Pause

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    A few desserts at the Pause cafe.

  • Tokyo Bookstores

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    I was looking through book/magazine distributor Yohan‘s website, and found this section where they review/point out various nice-looking cafe/bookstores in the city. Pictured above is Book Club Kai. Update (16/08/27): The photo is no longer available.

  • The Nonesense Machines

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    Japan Design Net features 35 pictures of Maiwa Denki’s “The Nonesense Machines” exhibition, now on at the ICC. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Ramen by Mail

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    Seems like one of the new trends this year was for mail-order ramen from famous shops throughout Japan. In the mood for a steaming bowl of Hakkaido ramen? It’s just an internet order away. The Yahoo! Japan Shopping section lists the most popular sales, and the top 5 are all from Ikebukuro’s Taishouken shop. I…

  • Bape in NY

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    Marxy points us to a NEW YORK TIMES article on the opening of the new A Bathing Ape shop in New York, and then goes on to explain why Bape is dead (or at least isn’t the Bape of old anymore).

  • TSiG: The Documentary

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    Yesterday I had a look at the documentary that was made on Jesper‘s Tokyo Style in Gothenburg (TSiG) project, and quite liked it. It gives you a nice look at what happened during the event, interviewing a lot of the participants, like Namaiki, ODD, Afrirampo, Shing02, and more. A good document of something I wish…

  • STG-GTS

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    I picked up this flyer at Pause last night, for a Shu-Thang Grafix exhibition called “Grand Touring Special.” It takes place in Kyoto, at the Sfera building, which is great because I’ll probably be heading to Kyoto early next year. It starts today, and ends January 30.

  • Mountain Mountain Exhibition 2004

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    The Logos Gallery in Shibuya is currently hosting a Mountain Mountain exhibition. I was there this afternoon, which is where I picked up the above flyer. Mountain Mountain have an interesting output: character goods, stationary, and some construction-type puzzles. Everything on display is of course for sale.

  • Koolhaus of Jazz

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    Oh, this sounds like a nice thing to do on Christmas day! December is the month when you hear Christmas songs just about everywhere you go. What you usually don’t hear are excellent jazz interpretations, and some of these are really good. The one I recommend most is Naruyoshi Kikuchi Quintet Live Dub’s “The Christmas…

  • Gatax

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    The Boredoms’ EYE has an exhibition of his art at Treesaresospecial in Daikanyama. The first time I heard about this artist he was calling himself “Yamantaka EYE” (about his role as a leading figure in a number of legendary Japanese noise bands you can read — in Japanese — in the November edition of Studio…