October 9, 2018 Slipping into an Alley of Good Old Days The atmosphere of good old days in Japan is, in my opinion, best reflected in alleys. Even today, if you go into the narrow…
October 3, 2018 International Arts in Japan – What’s New? In Tokyo, museums and galleries often hold exhibitions of international arts. For example, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno now exhibits paintings of Leonard…
September 4, 2018 Finding Unique Facade in Tokyo Sometimes, Japanese shops have unique facade. I would like to show them to you whenever I found one. Today, let me present you the…
September 2, 2018 Making a One-and-Only Notebook in the World When I went to Kuramae last time, I saw a stationery shop called Kakimori. This is a very unique shop where you can make your…
August 19, 2018 Finding Your Favourite in Artisans’ Town Kuramae Kuramae has quite a few artisans’ workshops. Sometimes the town is called as Brooklyn in Tokyo. If you visit those workshops, you may find…
August 18, 2018 Window-Shopping in the Wholesalers’ Town of Kuramae Kuramae is a town of wholesalers. As I wrote in the previous posting, there are shops old and new. Kuramae in Japanese means “in…
August 17, 2018 Finding Craft Shops in Kuramae Kuramae is not far from Asakusa and a kind of “emerging artisanal area” as lots of craft shops lined up along the street. Some…
August 13, 2018 Strolling along the Plants Market in Asakusa One of the largest plants markets is held in Asakusa every year at the last weekend of May and June. Japanese people love growing…
