Art, architecture and travel in Japan

One bedroom Trunk(House) offers classic Japanese living with a disco twist in Tokyo

By Danielle Demetriou Last updated 10 October 22

Case Real transforms a disappearing tenement house into an Aesop store in Japan

By Luke Halls Last updated 10 October 22

Youbi’s new HQ in Honshu is a friendly local hub as well as a furniture factory

By Jens H Jensen Last updated 10 October 22

Nendo’s minimalist homeware hacks connect human and object at Salone del Mobile

By Elly Parsons Last updated 10 October 22

An original teahouse in Kyoto has been transformed into the 23-bedroom Sowaka

By Daven Wu Last updated 10 October 22

Aman, Kyoto wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Hotel

Aman in Kyoto, Japan has scooped our coveted Wallpaper* Design Awards 2020 for the Best New Hotel, as selected by our discerning jury

By Melina Keays Last updated 10 October 22

Kennel club: Japan’s Kenya Hara launches Architecture for Dogs

By Naomi Pollock Last updated 10 October 22

Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home

For his first solo museum show in France, the Chicago-based artist dives into the dark past of the now-uninhabited Malaga Island off the coast of Maine

By Amy Verner Last updated 10 October 22

Tristan du Plessis blends Japanese and South African design influences at Cape Town's FYN

By Paul Sephton Last updated 10 October 22

‘Any oyster can make a pearl – only beautiful ones can be jewels’

We delve into the Nagasaki waters with Tasaki’s pearl harvesters in pursuit of a perfectly lustrous cultivated crop

By Caragh McKay Last updated 9 October 22

Muji is bringing its masterfully minimalist aesthetic to hotels

By Jens H Jensen Last updated 9 October 22

Inside-out house in Tokyo is an experiment in urban design

Tokyo’s Weather House by Not Architects Studio occupies a prominent corner site in a quiet residential street, its explosed structure and planting helping it blend into a nearby urban park

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 9 October 22

Boutique mixed-use scheme in Japan combines music and living

A mixed-use scheme combining a music hall with residential units is completed in Japan, courtesy of Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 9 October 22

teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom

With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’

By Nick Compton Last updated 9 October 22

Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo

By Jens H Jensen Last updated 9 October 22

Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel

By Elly Parsons Last updated 9 October 22

At Kyotographie, photographers are looking onwards and upwards

By Jens H Jensen Last updated 9 October 22

Hat trick: the magic of Japanese milliner Kijima Takayuki

By Morgane Nyfeler Last updated 9 October 22

Luxe glamping with Mount Fuji views with the launch of the new Hoshinoya property

By Emilee Tombs Last updated 9 October 22

Secrets of Japanese cookery revealed in Phaidon’s latest graphic tome

By Elly Parsons Last updated 9 October 22

In the fold: Issey Miyake, Ikko Tanaka, and the art of fashion

By Edward Siddons Last updated 8 October 22

Review: Ryoji Ikeda’s London show is a sensory assault course

Exhibition review of Ryoji Ikeda's epic intervention at 180 The Strand, London. The Japanese artist’s solo show is an intense fusion of sound and vision. Warning: videos include flashing images 

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 8 October 22

Book: How to Make a Japanese House

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 8 October 22

Aman Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan

By Catherine Shaw Last updated 7 October 22