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Tag Archives: Tokyo
Tokyo High Line
Tokyo is planning to follow New York City’s lead and create its own version of the hugely popular High Line. The city will be shutting down a two kilometer stretch of expressway in the heart of Tokyo later this week … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Asia, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Ginza, High Line, New York City, Tokyo
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Book this Book Hotel
The good news in planning an upcoming trip to Tokyo was that I managed to snag a cushy hotel in Shinjuku for five nights entirely free with reward points. However, the bad news is that I won’t be staying at … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Hotels, Tourism
Tagged Book Town, Japan, Tokyo
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Going In Style
I finally managed to see Wim Wender’s superb film Perfect Days. This truly moving and heartfelt movie centers on a Tokyo resident who is employed cleaning a set of special public toilets in the Shibuya City district. If you haven’t seen it, … Continue reading
Would you pay a fee to visit a bookstore
Bunkitsu (文喫) in Tokyo’s Roppongi neighborhood is a bookstore that stocks more than 30,000 titles. It also features something else: an admission fee. It costs 1,650 yen (USD $10.50) on weekdays and 2,530 yen ($16) on weekends. There’s also a … Continue reading
Tokyo Night Light
I am absolutely fascinated by projection mapping technology. So, of course, I need to share this new project where Panasonic illuminates the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku, Japan using the world’s largest permanent projection mapping display and a series live animations. … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Architecture, Art, Asia, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Japan, Panasonic, projection mapping, Tokyo
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Tokyo Midnight
I know very little about manga culture, but I was suitably impressed by this 19-minute live-action masterpiece, titled Midnight, which is based on a 1986 manga series by Osamu Tezuka, affectionately known as the Godfather of Manga. The entire project was … Continue reading
How it was done
Regular visitors to this blog will be well aware that the entire crew here at Travel Between The Pages world HQ have great admiration for Japanese woodblock printing. We especially enjoy the well known style called ukiyo-e. I recently stumbled … Continue reading
10 years, 3.5 million photos, in 4 minutes
Photographer Jack Fisher is a globe-trotting photographer who created the amazing time-lapse video below which covers ten years of work in just four minues. Fisher says, “I called it Sequences because I try to create stories, or scenes in my timelapse photography, … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Asia, Europe, Film, Photography, Public Transport, Tourism, USA
Tagged Chicago, New York, Singapore, Tokyo
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Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
A very special restaurant in Tokyo offers its customers an honest message. You may or may not get what you asked for, but you are guaranteed a delicious meal that brings a spark of humbleness and openness, which customers are … Continue reading
Tokyo meets The New Yorker
Way back in 2017 I shared a story about a marvelous art and design project that creates faux-magazine covers called , The Tokyoiter, and was reminded of it by a recent post in a blog that I follow. The concept, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Tourism
Tagged Graphic design, Magazines, The New Yorker, Tokyo
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