Fashion & streetwear
Harajuku street style, Shibuya labels, Daikanyama boutiques and Koenji thrift.
Ueno
1 placesRoppongi
1 placesHarajuku
4 placesCat Street
キャットストリートCat Street is a winding pedestrian lane built over a culverted river, running from the middle of Omotesando south to Miy…
Design Festa Gallery
デザインフェスタギャラリーDesign Festa Gallery is a free, two-building art space in the back streets of Ura-Harajuku, run by the organizers of the…
Omotesando
表参道Omotesando is a kilometer-long boulevard of zelkova trees laid out in 1920 as the approach to Meiji Jingu, which became,…
Takeshita Street
竹下通りTakeshita Street is a 400-meter pedestrian lane running downhill from Harajuku Station's north exit, and it has been the…
Shibuya
3 placesCenter Gai
センター街Center Gai is the pedestrian street that runs from the Scramble Crossing into the heart of Shibuya's youth district, off…
Miyashita Park
宮下パークMiyashita Park is a 330-meter strip of lawn, skate park and climbing wall on top of a four-storey shopping mall, built i…
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
渋谷スクランブル交差点The world's busiest pedestrian crossing sits right outside Shibuya Station's Hachiko exit. When the lights turn red for…
Nakameguro & Daikanyama
2 placesDaikanyama T-Site
代官山 蔦屋書店Daikanyama T-Site is a bookshop built in 2011 as three white pavilions wrapped in a lattice of interlocking T shapes, de…
Meguro River
目黒川The Meguro River runs through Nakameguro in a stone-walled channel, crossed by small bridges and lined for four kilomete…
Ginza
4 placesGinza Chuo-dori
銀座中央通りThe spine of Ginza runs for a kilometre between Kyobashi and Shinbashi, lined with flagship stores built by architects w…
Ginza Six
GINZA SIXThe largest shopping complex in Ginza opened in 2017 on the site of the old Matsuzakaya department store, with 240 shops…
Wako Clock Tower
銀座 和光The curved neo-Renaissance building on the Ginza 4-chome crossing is the district's emblem and one of the few prewar str…
Itoya Ginza
伊東屋 銀座本店A twelve-storey stationery shop founded in 1904 and still marked by a red paperclip over the door. Each floor takes one…
Marunouchi
1 placesKoenji
1 placesIkebukuro
1 placesShimokitazawa
2 placesReload
リロードReload is a two-storey village of white boxes built in 2021 on the land freed when the Odakyu line was buried, a few min…
Shimokitazawa Vintage Shops
下北沢の古着屋Shimokitazawa has more secondhand clothing stores per square meter than anywhere in Japan, somewhere above a hundred wit…
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