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Early Birds Get Free Noodles in Tokyo Scheme to Ease Metro Crowding

Free soba and tempura in exchange for getting on the train a little earlier could be a tasty offer for Tokyo commuters who are sick of the "subway sandwich," which has nothing to do with bread ...

Back-Alley Bookends: Narrow Tokyo City Scenes Bracket Books & Tell Stories

Inspired by the winding, cyberpunk-worthy passageways of modern-day Tokyo, these bookends invert expectations, shaped themselves like books but carved out to reveal city-based ...

Tree-ness House: An Urban Jumble of Concrete Volumes & Terraces

A maze-like tower of voids and projections looms above the streets of Tokyo, offering residents cascading outdoor spaces all along the building’s roof and facade. ‘Tree-ness House’ by ...

A Taste of Japan: Immersive Animated Restaurant Shifts with the Seasons

The exclusive experience of dining at this Tokyo restaurant, which serves just eight patrons a day, is not really about the food - though Saga Beef restaurant Sagaya-Ginza is not necessarily ...

Book and Bed Hostel: Your Dream to Sleep in a Library Came True

Every true bibliophile has gazed up at the seemingly endless shelves of books in a good bookstore or library and imagined gathering up a stack, finding a quiet nook and turning in for the night. ...

Japan-ized Cities: Surrealistic “Worldwide Tokyo-lization Project”

A team of designers has taken iconic images of major global cities and added a "rich graphic language and vibrant visual effects" to blend each one with elements of Japanese infrastructure and ...

Muji Huts: Affordable Pop-Up Modern Homes Made for Japan

The same Japanese retail chain selling household supplies like space-saving furniture, bed linens and travel toothbrushes will soon sell pop-up houses, too, so you can literally walk out with a ...

Divisible Design: Modular House Anticipates Partial Demolition

While nothing is set in stone as yet, the city of Tokyo has plans to build a road through this residential plot, forcing architects working on the site to craft an ingenious future-proof ...

Farm-to-Desk: Vertical Urban Farm Shares Tokyo Office Space

Two hundred species of edible greens occupy a quarter of this 215,000-square-foot office in Tokyo, Japan, sharing space with thousands of workers who in turn consume harvested fruits, vegetables ...

Junked Ship: Japan Ditches Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Design

Scheduled to land like an otherworldly spacecraft in Tokyo, the curvaceous, controversial but competition-winning National Stadium designed for the 2020 Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) ...

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