With a few locations around Tokyo, Uoshins is my new favorite Japanese sushi spot. It's affordable, incredibly fresh (fish is laid out on ice when you walk in) and casual. The location I went to in Nogizaka is an old…
Continue Reading →Most guide books are, well, dull. And even if you think you've picked the "local" spots, you're likely to end up at the same bar or strip club with all the other tourists. Lame. But check out the new book…
Continue Reading →Very recently, a new design center -- one that promises to take a different approach to sharing design with the public- opened its doors in Tokyo. Named 21_21 Design Sight (after 21/21 vision; meaning to see beyond today into the…
Continue Reading →While it would certainly help to have been to Tokyo (Josh won't stop raving about it), I don't think it's a prerequisite for understanding the Information Architects Web Trends Map 2007 Version 2.0. It's got a long title, but it's…
Continue Reading →I used to work for a brilliant man who, while rational in every other way (almost to a fault), was completely obsessed with the catastrophic potential of an Avian Flu epidemic. His paranoia led him to purchase an outdoor generator,…
Continue Reading →Steve Lidbury may hail from the U.K., but he has made quite a splash in Tokyo with his stellar interior architectural design work. Twenty-eight years young, he's already amassed quite the project portfolio: among his contributions, he's been hired to…
Continue Reading →I'm feeling a bit nostalgic with this one. Every child of the 80's remembers fondly their boombox (a.k.a. Ghetto Blaster). Remember walking down the street with your Ghetto Blaster on your shoulder, blasting Rapper's Delight, getting sour looks from passersby…
Continue Reading →Wallet, keys, mobile, bag. There seems to be an over-saturation of the market with these quirky yet ordinary objects. However our comrades at Delfonics have provided us with one more piece to worry about for our daily routine. Slim, stylish…
Continue Reading →Few first time visitors to Tokyo would expect to find an exceptional Italian dinner there, but that need not be the case if you can get into Massa in the Ebisu suburb of Tokyo. When you can no longer tell…
Continue Reading →One of my favorite sneaker shops I found while hunting through Tokyo was Pistacchio. It's located in Daikanyama, on a small back street called Sarugaku-cho just across from the Onitsuka Tiger store. The shop was primarily full of obscure Nike…
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