QUICK & RANDOM TOKYO SHOP GUIDE

QUICK & RANDOM TOKYO SHOP GUIDE

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Here are some of the lovely shops in Tokyo which I visited in the last couple of months which I think some of you might also love. If you click each address it links to google map.

1 & 2: Otsu Furniture (Gakugeidaigaku/Meguro) - a shop in the neighbourhood I like to visit now and then, they sell Japanese vintage furniture at relatively reasonable prices.
Address: 1-4-9 Takaban Meguro-ku

3 & 4: doinel (Aoyama-Gaienmae) - gorgeous little shop selling imported homewares and zakka. i love their great selection of bio wines too!
Address: 3-2-9 Kitaaoyama Minato-ku

5: cloth + cross (Jiyugaoka) - beautiful linen items, home & tablewares in lovely interior.
Address: 2-14-11 Jiyugaoka Meguro-ku

6 & 7: B+B (Shimokitazawa) - new & fun book shop where you can also enjoy beer while browsing books. (beer + books) they sell not only books but also zakka items and even all the furniture they use in the shop. really great shop i wish it was somewhere closer to me!
Address: 2-12-4 Kitazawa Setagaya-ku

Hope you like them!

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Aoyama - Gaienmae (Quick Tokyo Guide)

Aoyama - Gaienmae (Quick Tokyo Guide)

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

I just had another roll of film developed, which I had kind of forgotten about so these were taken a few months ago but I thought I'd share as a quick mini Tokyo guide. These are all from the area of Aoyama/Gaienmae, all very close by so you can visit all in an hour or two, all very lovely.

1&2: mina perhonen piece - just....love it!!
3: Watarium Museum - small but hosts many great exhibitions, also has a great little museum shop on the ground floor and a cafe downstairs.
4-7: Keith Haring & Barry McGee-created graffiti opposite the Watarium museum - excellent!!
8-10: Pan to Espresso to. - A cute little cafe that serves good coffee and panini.

How to get to Aoyama/Gaienmae: The closest station to this area is Gaienmae on Ginza line (exit 3) but you can easily walk to/from Omotesando.

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Other than the guide I have another recommendation, my friend and a talented Tokyo based zakka/product designer Ros' new website polkaros.com has been launched! She now has a new web shop where she sells her cute products with free shipping worldwide (how generous!)!! And....the web design and development was all done by... me!! I hope you visit her new website & shop and enjoy the total cuteness of the polkaros world :)
http://www.polkaros.com/


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quick tokyo shop guide by one-use square camera

quick tokyo shop guide by one-use square camera

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

01. KOHORO - a beautiful Japanese style tableware and zakka
(addresses shown at the end of the post)
02. box & needle - full of very exquisite paper boxes made in Kyoto!
(I simply can't get enough of them! They have a really great style.)
03. Tsutaya Shoten - E-v-e-r-y-o-n-e in Tokyo was talking about this new grand book store when it opened in Daikanyama last December. Bit overwhelming but well worth a visit.
04. My all time favourite -Baden Baden which by now you all know
if you've been reading my blog for a while :)
05. "Do" at Claska

and last but not least, my very favourite bento shop (actually a rice shop) near my house who sell delicious home made obento only on Wednesdays.


All photos were taken with disposable square camera.

Addresses:
01. KOHORO
3-12-11 Tamagawa Setagaya-ku (google map)
3 mins from Futakotamagawa Station on Denentoshi and Oimachi lines.
Right behind Takashimaya department store.

02. box & needle
Same address to KOHORO shown above, they are located next to each other.
Both shops close on Wednesdays.

*Futakotamagawa is 2-5 minutes from Jiyugaoka on Oimachi line,
both express and local trains stop.

03. Tsutaya Shoten (Tsutaya books Daikanyama)
17-5 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku (google map)
3 mins from Daikanyama station on Toyoko line.

04. Baden Baden
2-31-7 Chuo-cho Meguro-ku Tokyo (google map)
About 5 minuite walk from Gakugeidaigaku Station on Toyoko Line.
Openin hours: 12：00~20：00 / Closed on Wednesdays
THEY HAVE CLOSED (SAD!!!)

05. "Do" at Claska
1-3-18 Chuo-cho Meguro-ku Tokyo (google map)

06. Hakusan Rice Shop
3-6-10 Jiyugaoka Meguro-ku (google map)
Take away bento lunch boxes available on Wednesdays only.


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Yakumo Saryo - Baishinka Tea House

Yakumo Saryo - Baishinka Tea House

Thursday, 27 October 2011

I never knew what I recognise as "that old and huge house on the corner" which I have passed countless times ever since I was a child has been turned into such an exquisite tea house until I saw this amazing post by uponafold who seems to have the best eyes for finding the best designs and places in Japan than anyone from Japan (seriously!). Baishinka - Yakumosaryo is produced by the same people of HIGASHIYA which I never got a chance to visit before they closed it, so I was really happy to find that this beautiful space is within an easy bike riding distance from my apartment.

I think I have said it many times here before but I love old Japanese house. Sadly many of the beautiful and big old houses get demolished because of the high inheritance tax in Japan, but what they did to this house is truly admirable.

Yakumo Saryo - Baishinka
3-4-7 Yakumo, Meguro-ku Tokyo (google map)

It's in a little tricky location but there is a bus from Jiyugaoka that goes here. Take Tokyu Bus #11 that goes to Shibuya, get off at Yagumo Koukou and walk back a couple of minutes. Or you can walk from Jiyugaoka or Toritsudaigaku station, both a 15-minute-plus walk. If you prefer to walk it's easier from Jiyugaoka, just walk along Jiyu-Dori Street.

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OMOTESANDO KOFFEE

OMOTESANDO KOFFEE

Thursday, 11 August 2011

All above photographs were taken by me (with a permission from the shop owner of course - in case you wonder). If you are re-blogging any of these images please remember to give me credit, thank you :)

Good coffee makes me smile. So does an old Japanese house. So OMOTESANDO KOFFEE became my recent favourite coffee spot in Tokyo, naturally!

OMOTESANDO KOFFEE is a pop-up cafe opened earlier this year hidden in a backstreet of Omotesando, in a beautiful 80 years old Japanese house that is going to be demolished. (80 years old probably doesn't sound so old if you live outside Japan, but for us it is considered very old. Old buildings are very often knocked down and new ones are built in Japan - this is sad but you know this has got a lot to do with far-too-many earthquakes we have in this country!)

Anyway.... so this cafe is open only for one year (it opened sometime in January this year) which means if you are in Tokyo before January 2012 Apparently the owner of the building decided to postpone the demolishing of the building so it is still there!! but I don't know for how long so you should make sure to pay a visit whenever possible to enjoy a lovely cup of coffee made by one of the most famous baristas in Tokyo before it is gone! Well, I'm sure he will move to somewhere and serve more good coffee but this set up is definitely not to miss!

OMOTESANDO KOFFEE
4-15-3 Jingumae Shibuya-ku (google map)

Open: 10:00-19:00 CLOSED NOW
http://ooo-koffee.com/menu/

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