Tag: Christmas 2009

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

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,

Welcome to the second in our ongoing series of Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. In this edition, we take a quick stroll down one of the most famous shopping streets in Harajuku - Takeshita Dori (or Takeshita Street if you

The end of the year holidays - which, in Japan, mostly means New Years and Christmas - are quickly approaching. Now that we're into December, Christmas decorations and lights are quickly appearing all over Tokyo. The local government of each

The end of the year holidays are quickly approaching, and that means lots of Japanese fashion brands are launching promotions and putting out special release items to celebrate. Just yesterday, two popular brands - Milkfed and Honey Salon - released

It's getting close to the end of year, and that means that the Christmas spirit is in the air in Japan. New Years Day - rather than Christmas - is the big year-end holiday here, but Christmas is still recognized