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EVERYDAY 

If you’ve been to Tokyo before, or are in a random area, or just looking for some extra things to do, here’s all that I’ve been seeing and can endorse. These are things from my everyday. Not listed on main pages to avoid overwhelming. 




Pothole, Ginza

Something about potholes



Nonbei Yokocho Festival, Shibuya

The objects of sensory experience are deceptive




Tsukiji Autumn Festival

This is the trap — either what we seek is within the bounds of the understanding or beyond it. 

Combini icecream





Tsukiji Autumn Festival

This is the trap — either what we seek is within the bounds of the understanding or beyond it. If outside it does not exist for us, much less for our imagination; if inside it is bounded by that and must be so defined before it can be conceived — this precedes all further progress.

Laconic, 1987
Sanma BBQ

Sanma is an inextricible part of autumn in Japan, alongside orange and red canopies (momiji) and hiyaoroshi (autumn sake). Find it on menus as sashimi, sushi, nimono or grilled-shioyaki style. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll get to experience it BBQ style at a mates place. It is called ‘pacific saury’ in English, will is likely to be just as unfamiliar as sanma. The kanji comes from “sword”, a nod to it’s long and shimmering silver appearance.
D47 Museum. Level 8 of the Hikarie building is dedicated to showcasing the food, artwork and other projects from each of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Many exhibitions are focussed on sustainable living, traditional crafts in a modern context, architecture and meibutsu (regional specialty foods). D47 Shokudo is a lunch-set restaurant on the same level, featuring menus from the different prefectures, and there’s a homewares store on the level below selling excellent authentic crafts - perfect for gift shopping. You can feel like you’ve traversed Japan’s prefectures in one level of a train station department store. After, head to to Floor 11 to see an architectural model of Shibuya 2020 and beyond, and a view over Shibuya.
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