TOP 10 SHIBUYA
top 10 shibuya is what i have managed to discover during my visits so far. shibuya is tokyo’s youth district, where you will find unusual street style and surprising retail outlets. go to be amazed! 10. 109 is not merely a department store but an institution in itself. there is even an 109 men. teens visit...
SHIBUYA STREET ART
shibuya street art was superabundant. shibuya is the young ward of tokyo so it’s no surprise that every little available space was stickered to death.
A LAD IN NAGOYA
the japanese don’t bother with the whole new-architecture-ruins-the-old-architecture thing. actually, as they have a culture of continuous renewal, not many of the temples or traditional buildings you see are their original selves: most have been re-built many times over, not in the lest perhaps due to the frequent earthquakes. also, the country is full of...
TOKYO day 8
i met liviu in shibuya. we had a quiet walk to ebisu and then went to harajuku, on takeshi street, where he helped me pick japanese snacks for my friends back home. i got, among others, dry octopus, roasted peas, huge corn, beans, wasabi crackers, fish spines with honey and sesame and various kinds of...
TOKYO day 7
Trying to cover what I hadn’t yet, I went to Shibuya. I had been there before briefly and went with Liviu to the top of a hotel in order to take pictures of the busiest crossroads ever. You know, the one in Lost in translation. It really is incredibly busy. I’m usually pretty good at...
TOKYO day 2
i was lucky to spend the sunday with liviu, a romanian friend of a friend who has been living in tokyo for 15 years. he took me to omotesando, harajuku and shibuya. i was blown away: the prada building, cat street, the rockabilly dancers in yoyogi park and the craziest street style on this planet....
