Tag: 2012

Harajuku style trends move quickly. Faces change, shops and brands come and go. It's difficult to stop time and declare what matters the most. Even so, as the New Year kicks off we thought we'd take a quick look back

Another year has come and gone. The traditional way to celebrate New Year's Eve in Japan is to return to your hometown and spend time with family, visit a shrine (hatsumode), or enjoy a quiet evening watching Kohaku on television

Christmas is a wonderful time of year - full of friendship and family, showing appreciation to your loved ones, and a chance to reflect on the year that's soon to end. It's also something else, though - an excuse to

Merry Christmas from Tokyo and welcome to our third holiday photo walk of 2012! This walk follows our walks around Aoyama & Omotesando and Takeshita Dori in Harajuku. Even though we covered part of Harajuku in the second walk, there

Christmas is very near, so we're posting Tokyo Christmas pictures as fast as we can! In this second installment of our annual Tokyo holiday photo walks, we'll be hitting Harajuku. Harajuku is too big for us to post it all

Christmas is only days away, and that means that Tokyo is buzzing with holiday cheer. Even though New Years is the big-big holiday in Japan, Christmas is a major event as well. Most of the shops have some kind of

Fukubukuro sales in Japan kick off on New Year's Day. We've already published a massive report on the 2012 Lucky Bag shopping fun in Harajuku. Now it's time to turn our sights toward Shibuya. Whereas LaForet Harajuku opens on the