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Category: City Life

  • Magazines at Cafe Pause

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    I know I don’t do magazine round-ups anymore here, and I haven’t updated the Cafe Pause blog in a while concerning new magazines, but I do in fact still curate the magazine selection there, and picked up a few more today, which I’ve listed on the cafe’s blog.

  • Juliana Vol. 11

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    After a bit of a hiatus, Tokyo Fun Party’s “Juliana” is back for an 11th edition! The event takes place this coming Sunday night (January 18, 19:00-23:00) at Soft in Shibuya, 500 yen at the door. DJ in da house: Kinkies, KazuNoco, Digiki, and SoccerBoy.

  • Flatflat

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    Flatflat is certainly an intriguing new space. The Harajuku “store” — designed by Sako Architects — acts as a sort of playground where you can go an try out Hangame, an online games portal. Designboom posts more photos of the interior.

  • Eye of the Beyonder

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    Cyril shares a few photos from Item Idem‘s latest installation, “Eye of the Beyonder.”

  • TAB Event Listings on Sony Bravia TVs

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    Tokyo Art Beat invades Sony Bravia TVs! I’ll let Paul explain what this is all about.

  • Less Shopping Time at Department Stores

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    Economic crunch in Japan example #46: Tokyomango reports that the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department stores — they are both owned by the same company — will now be opened six days a week instead of the usual seven, also reducing their daily hours of operation. Update: Seems like there was an error in translating the…

  • Beams Tokyo Cultuart

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    Cscout Japan takes us on a tour of the newly opened Beams Tokyo Cultuart select shop in Harajuku — it’s part of the Beams empire of stores in the area. The product info browser — done through your iPhone — is a rather neat idea, especially that they’ve made it bilingual.

  • Almond Cafe Moves

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    Time to find a new meeting spot in Roppongi. Almond Cafe — the branch which has occupied that particular corner of the Roppongi intersection since 1964 — is closing tomorrow to make way for a new building (the current building is apparently too old). This article also notes that Almond was the first company in…