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Category: Stores
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ITO-YA Stationery Store
An oldie but goodie: the ITO-YA stationery store in Ginza. The building next to it, also part of ITO-YA, is undergoing some major renovations.
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A Naked Sony Building
A surprisingly bare Sony Building in Ginza — it’s rare to see it without anything on the front.
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Marronnier Gate
Just outside the recently opened Marronnier Gate shopping center in Ginza, which I cover in this Gridskipper post.
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Ginza Hands
I checked out the new Marronnier Gate shopping center the other day, mostly to have a look at Ginza Hands, a new brand concept by Tokyu Hands. It occupies 5 floors of the new building, and pretty much remixes the typical Hands offerings into a slightly more upscale version. You can listen to me describing…
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Tokyo Bike Goes Upscale
I really like the bikes from Tokyo Bike (or Tokyobike.com), and I’ve pretty much decided on getting their Tokyo Bike Sport model. At the new Ginza Hands store, inside the Marronnier Gate shopping center, the bike corner is pretty much just made up of various models from Tokyo Bike, and includes a very expensive gold-plated…
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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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Climbing at Mont-Bell
With all the mountain trekking I’ve been doing of late, I had to update my gear, and bought quite a few things at the Mont-Bell flagship store in Shibuya. As you can see, you can even practice some climbing in the store.
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This Week at Gridskipper
Sample Lab Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro Retail Space You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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New Electronics at MUJI
MUJI has just launched a new line of cheap electronic goods, like these USB adapters, memory card readers, mobile phone adapters, etc.