Most Recent Tokyo Fashion Articles

Today - Monday, January 11, 2010 - is Coming of Age Day (Seijin no Hi) in Tokyo. That means that walking in Harajuku you're likely to see quite a few 20-year-old Japanese girls dressed up in furisode Kimono on their

The days following New Year's Day are huge shopping days in Japan. One of the biggest reasons for the shopping frenzy are the fukubukuro (Happy Bag, Lucky Bag, Mystery Bag, etc.) that many stores offer to kick off the New

Sometime around the end of 2009, while shopping at Parco Shibuya, we picked up a copy of the first issue of a new free Japanese fashion magazine. The magazine is called "MIG". Apparently, "MIG" is an acronym for "Made In

New Year's Day is a day when many - maybe most - of us think of sleeping in to recover from the hard partying that we did the night before. But, in Tokyo, it's also a big shopping day. Some

Christmas 2009 has passed us by - and now we've all moved onto celebrating the New Year - but that won't stop us from posting the last of our Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. The final walk is in a

Say goodbye to Gap Harajuku. Say hello to...Gap Harajuku. A month after opening their new flagship store directly opposite the Omotesando exit of Harajuku Station, Gap is closing their existing Meiji Dori flagship - a store that has been a

Christmas is only hours away! That means we must hurry up and post the rest of our Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. We still have to cover Omotesando and Aoyama to complete the neighborhoods around Harajuku. Looks like won't finish

Welcome to another in our series of Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. The basic idea is that we walk you around Tokyo, shooting pictures and explaining where we are and what we're seeing as we go. In the last walk

Parco, the Japanese department store chain with an iconic presence in Shibuya and other parts of Tokyo, has been around for 40 years. That's a long time, so what are they doing to celebrate their anniversary? How about commissioning 40

The end of 2009 is getting really close now, so it's time for us to post more Tokyo holiday pictures. For this edition of our ongoing Holiday 2009 Photo Walk series, we'll take a cruise around Harajuku. Harajuku isn't huge,