Category: Tokyo Boy

The entrance to the LEVEL X exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Photography Museum.

Robert enjoying his espresso at Jordi in Shibuya.

A new-ish building at the corner of Omotesando and Aoyama street, with the address of One Omotesando (I figure it’s the address, but it could just be the name of the building). It houses a bunch of luxury brand shops.

The Vincent Gallo exhibit at Gallery Rocket.

As I was walking around Aoyama the other day, I passed what looked like somekind of production studio, and they had these piles of tapes laying out in front of the door outside, probably waiting to get picked up.

Also at the Spiral Character exhibit, these figures are based on a legendary Russian animated film which is now playing in Tokyo. From REALTOKYO: Driven by her desire to have a dog, a little girl uses a woolen mitten instead to resemble a puppy… when suddenly the mitten begins to walk! Shown for the first…

I was able to take 2 pics at Spiral’s Character exhibit before someone came up to me and told me to stop.

Late last night we had a craving for ramen, and decided to check out a new-ish shop we’d spotted a while back but hadn’t gotten around to visiting yet. Dobekkosu, a shop specializing in tonkotsu ramen, is situated not far from Sunshine Street in Ikebukuro (walk down it, then turn right at the first street…

Here is a shot taken in the first room of the Jean Nouvel exhibit. At the top are slides of his works being projected, while the wall around you has miniature versions of all the slides being shown. It made for quite an interesting sight.

After Ginza I was off to Shinjuku to check out the Jean Nouvel exhibit at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Nouvel has produced an amazing array of works, all buildings that I would absolutely love to visit in person. A while back I mentioned an article in CASA BRUTUS about “slow architecture,” and he…