Tag Archives: japan
omotesando hills
tadao ando’s complicity in corporate cultural vandalism in central tokyo. tadao ando is largely admired in the west for his architecture of uncompromising and cool minimalism. but the other side to ando’s practice is an uncompromising and cool commercialism. omotesando hills is the harajuku development … Read More →
city
the city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, … Read More →
teppan-yaki izakaya
teppan-yaki-ya are usually associated with flashy upmarket slightly tacky pepper-mill twirling wisecracking steak chefs in london and new york epitomised by ‘benihana’. this place was a bit different. it’s warm and friendly, and the food has a distinctly japan meets the rest of the world … Read More →
龍安寺（ryoan-ji)
うらやまし美しう成て散る紅葉 urayamashi utsukushuu natte chiru momiji how enviable becoming beautiful falling maple leaves
tokyo ikebukuro mono
not the most glamourous part of tokyo, with a reputation for sleaze and bad taste, it nevertheless boasts one of tokyo’s biggest railway stations, two of the biggest department stores in the world, and serves the dormitory prefecture of saitama. nevertheless, this is where your … Read More →
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