So in May of this year, I packed – very lightly, I might add, as, surprisingly for someone with four wardrobes and a predilection for hoarding, I only take one pair of shoes extra to what I wear on the plane, and a tiny toiletries bag of sample-sized skincare and two pairs of trousers – and set off for ten days to Japan with my friend Carly. We were ostensibly going to a Japanese friend’s wedding in Hokkaido but more than that, we were off on An Adventure. Sans children and husbands and carrying lists of recycle fashion stores and a desire to eat as much Japanese food as we can manage between us. Here then, are some photographs I took around Tokyo. The highlights I’m covering here we did in a period of two days, including Tokyo’s famous Meiji Shrine, the cool teen shopping arena of Takeshita Street, a flea market in Harajuku, and Ginza’s designer district; including the designer recycle shops (“Risaikuru Shoppu” in Japanese-English) Kindl and Ragtag.
MEIJI SHRINE
Taiko (drum) drummers perform for Golden Week in early May at Meiji Shrine
Sake barrels make a pretty display alongside the road up to Meiji Shrine.
TAKESHITA STREET
Police control for the over-crowding of shoppers on Takeshita Street in Harajuku.
HARAJUKU
Flea market
GINZA
Issey Miyake
A stunning white hole-effect geometric building in Ginza
Below: The Prada building
Stella McCartney building in Ginza
MARKET STREET IN NIPPORI
A GARDEN WE FOUND IN TOKYO – with hundreds of chrysanthemums and 88 vistas based on pictures in ancient scrolls recreated in life size.
Megan Robinson
25th May 2015
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