Each edition of d design travel is devoted to a prefecture. The print edition is know for its beautiful covers, and to me anyway, its awesomely formal side by side English translations of the Japanese text. i.e. this one’s from the bilingual app description of the store Mitate: “The culmination of Setsuko Yamada’s work in directing Japanese and Tokyo […]
Tag Archives: Tokyo
I’ve had an idea for a long time that there ought to be a social worker, a little table, and two chairs on every train platform in the Tokyo area. I’d visit, probably just to talk out why I was missing this one train connection about three days a week and to sit down, but […]
I know I really shouldn’t have, but I just wanted to try it out. And then it turned out to be a pretty awesome ride-with lots of room for groceries and a really trusting skinny hipped friend with a weak neck, if I can find one of those. I found it on Tuesday and I […]
I took a flight down to Tokyo from Hokkaido, fucking 4,900 yen like $50. Thank you new Asian low cost carriers, specifically Air “Now Everyone Can Fly” Asia! I got there early and here’s something I saw in the airport: a toddler on the ground licking the place where the carpet and the floor length […]
Americans tend to think they’re the only consumers who use food choices as a means for self-harm, but I’ve got news for them, there’s an international market of tired hungry people interested in fatty absurdest food creations. May I present to you some rolls filled with stew, among other things, that I saw at a […]
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