teamLab & TikTok, teamLab Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna Roppongi Staff members walk past “Ephemeral Solidified Light,” one of the installations at teamLab and TikTok’s “Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna” in Tokyo. | AFP-JIJI It’s the hottest new exhibition in town: an immersive digital art experience filled with futuristic light installations that doubles up as […]
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Midnight trains packed with spent salarymen. Tangled streets snaking through canyons of neon light. Alleys wall-to-wall with shops hawking bowls of ramen and electronic parts. And of course, the world’s busiest crossing, where pedestrians glued to their cell-phone screens fire like pinballs every time the walk signal turns green. Images like these have branded Tokyo
Whether virtually strolling gardens in Kyoto or keeping a live stream of Shibuya Crossing open in a tab at all times, Japan is kinda sorta always on our minds—especially as coronavirus cases around the region wane and the prospect of travel opening up becomes more realistic. Last week, Japanese officials approved a plan to remove
Famous Ukiyo-e prints all in one location Ukiyo-e is an iconic form of Japanese art that enjoyed immense popularity among the urban populace during the Edo period (1603-1868). Its popularity eventually spread to the West, where it profoundly influenced the Impressionist painters and other artists and sparked a craze for Japanese art known as Japonisme.
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Blooming in the sky of Hibiya Just in time for the change in seasons, a new high-end hotel brand springs to life from hospitality experts JR Kyushu group. With two fetching locations in Tokyo and Fukuoka, THE BLOSSOM exudes graceful elegance and cradles you in the culture of japan, creating stunning, generously sized spaces of
Japan’s first Banksy exhibition will be held in 2020! The UK-based anonymous artist, Banksy is famous worldwide for his graffiti street art. He has created quite a few notable artworks with dark humors by his stenciling technique, and his street art works can be spotted at numbers of locations throughout the world. Banksy and his
Welcome to Kabukicho, Shinjuku Japan has had a very large sex industry that still thrives after hundreds and hundreds of years. Very well-known among lovers of the adult genre are the (sometimes quite outrageous) porn movies made in Japan depicting unusual scenarios and stories, and prostitution is still very much present in larger metropolitan areas.
