Art, architecture and travel in Tokyo
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Tokyo - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Tokyo.
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The space of change: charting the peculiarity of Japanese houses
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Hublot’s Tokyo watch boutique plays on glass and crystal
The flagship boutique in Ginza is Hublot’s largest retail space to date
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Tokyo Design Week 2010
By Cathelijne Nuijsink Last updated
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Tokyo design fair report, 2012
By Catherine Shaw Last updated
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Good jeans: Acne Studios’ new denim outpost in Shibuya strikes a blue note
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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What lies on the road ahead for Daimler and autonomous driving
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Fritz Hansen Tokyo HQ opens in Kengo Kuma-designed building
Fritz Hansen unveils a new Tokyo HQ, in a building originally designed by Kengo Kuma in 1991. In a new film created to mark the opening, the architect shares his creative vision and his views on both Scandinavian and Japanese design
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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The things that define you: an exhibition of zakka at 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo
By Tom Howells Last updated
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The Millennials is a modern, updated version of Japan’s famed capsule hotel concept
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated
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Architect Jun Aoki designs fabric-like façade for Loro Piana's new Tokyo flagship
The storied Italian brand makes a subtle architectural statement with its new Tokyo outpost
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Koichi Futatsumata gives an old business hotel a stylish minimal makeover
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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A new Tokyo museum designed by Kume Sekkei brings us closer to the art of Yayoi Kusama
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated
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A contemporary tea room and shop opens in Tokyo
By Catherine Shaw Last updated
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Found Muji
By Nick Compton Last updated
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The Café by Aman — Tokyo, Japan
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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One bedroom Trunk(House) offers classic Japanese living with a disco twist in Tokyo
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated
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Issey Miyake installs pleating machine at Homme Plissé Tokyo flagship
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated
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Essential reading: the single book Morioka Shoten bookstore opens in Ginza, Tokyo
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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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
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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
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Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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Last chance to see: Reclaim the Earth, urge artists at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo
We discover the group exhibition ‘Reclaim the Earth’, a wake-up call for humans to reconsider our relationship with the planet (until 4 September 2022)
By Amy Serafin Last updated
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Plan C lands first international flagship store in Tokyo
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Aman Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
By Catherine Shaw Last updated
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Dover Street Market Ginza, Tokyo
By Ellen Himelfarb Last updated
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Exhibition in Japan celebrates all things Eames
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Eames design office, Tokyo’s Isetan The Space gallery hosts an exhibition (until 5 January 2022), highlighting some of Charles and Ray Eames’ most celebrated designs as well as new editions and collaborations
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Tsutaya Books by Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo
By Catherine Shaw Last updated