Located in the Nakano ward, the Mushi-sha beetle shop sells beetles from 100 to 40.000 yens. The small shop is located inside an anonymous building, 5 minutes by foot from the JR Nakano station. With exited children, the shop, which is also kind of a beetle museum, is very animated and the mood oscillates between the supermarket and the schoolyard.
Beetles are very famous in Japan and brandnames don't hesitate to promote their products by offering beetle goods such as this 7-eleven convenience store gift in reference to the French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre...
24 images were added under the reference #001-000169.
Achromatik est une association d'artistes privilégiant la création, la promotion et la diffusion de travaux photographiques et audio-visuels en collaboration avec des artistes indépendants qui souhaitent bénéficier d’un lieu et d’un cadre de travail favorables aux expérimentations visuelles (studio photo, espace d'exposition, promotion d'artistes...).
Foto Focus est une boutique de vente en ligne de matériel photographique : appareils numériques, argentiques, trépieds et autres accesoires. Les tarifs proposés par cette entreprise luxembourgeoise sont très attractifs en comparaison des prix pratiqués dans les boutiques parisiennes. Par exemple, un gain de 30-40 euros sur l'achat d'un trépied est très classique. Le suivi des clients est sérieux et les livraisons utilisent le service Chronopost (3-4 jours).
Fondé en 1998, DPREVIEW.COM est probablement l'un des meilleurs site de news et de test sur les matériels photographiques et l'industrie de l'image. On y trouve aussi forums, avis d'utilisateurs et comparatifs. Des échantillons d'images en version hautre résolution accompagnant les tests sont disponibles en téléchargement.
Shift est un magazine en ligne référence sur les arts graphiques, la mode, la musique et le (web)design. Si vous vous intéressez un temps soit peu à la culture japonaise, il vous faut absolument visiter se site qui est devenu une véritable institution dans les cercle des créateurs. Fréquence de publication (anglais) : chaque mois. Le site est disponible en deux langues : anglais et japonais.
Opened on October 2004, the Christian Dior Ginza store has been designed by Kumiko Inui. The coating of construction is composed by the "double skin" structure of a punching metal applied white. At night, the facade is illuminated by fiber optics.
The Dior's store is located on Harumi-dori, Tokyo, Japan:
5-6-1 Ginza,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Japan
Four photos were added under the reference #001-000074.
With a 10-floor palace of glass at the ritziest of all Tokyo addresses, Chanel launched its biggest boutique in the world. The store opened December 4, 2004. This lavish building in the Ginza district features a concert hall, a restaurant by celebrated French chef Alain Ducasse, and 1,300 square meters of shopping space featuring designer items sold nowhere else. Designed by American architect Peter Marino, the 56-meter high building is set to dominate the elite Chuo-dori avenue. It has a massive curtain wall of glass that encapsulates a nest-shaped block of aluminum in Chanel handbags' signature tweed pattern. The last floor of accomodates the Alain ducasse restaurant "Beige Tokyo" also designed by Peter Marino.
The glass facade will light up Ginza each dusk to dawn with 700,000 embedded light-emitting diodes. The system consists of over 6 kilometers of control cables, 5 floors of industrial control closets, 3 master control computers, and 65,000 micro computers processing over 32 trillion instructions per second. An innovative system of 1,120 square meters of canvas roll blinds and state-changing electronic privacy glass allows office workers to see out by day but provides a black background for the display at night. The first of its kind in the world, the facade of a building becomes a giant television screen that delights passers-by.
The Chanel Tower in the Ginza district of Tokyo is the first true architectural integration of LED technology into a curtain wall. From inside and outside the LED technology appears transparent, allowing the office worker a clear an unobstructed view of the world during the day. The street view presents the worlds largest black and white video wall at night.
The 11-storey Ginza Hermes building was designed by Renzo Piano, who was involved in the design of such buildings as the Pompidou Center in Paris and Japan's Kansai International Airport Terminal. The store is the largest Hermes shop in Asia.
At the origin La Maison Hermes has been an highly prestigious furnisher in Japan by receiving special orders from the Japanese Imperial House in the 1910s.
Hermès started to offer its products to the Japanese market in 1961. During the first presence years in Japan, the French company has distributed its products through the Seibu group network.
Do you want to go to this place?
HERMES Ginza Shop
5-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Get off at JR Yuracho Station
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The golden age of Tokyo's streetcars took place between 1911 and the postwars years. Gradualy the car's number fall away with the car industry developpment and the motor vehicle traffic growth. Finally, at the occasion of the 1964 Olympic games, the tramway transportation was relegated to the past...
The Toei Streetcar (Toden), Arakawa line, is the only one streetcar remaining line in Tokyo. With of total length of 12.2 kilometers, the line runs between the Minowabashi station located in the Taito ward (Taito-ku) in the Northeast of Tokyo, and the Waseda station located in the Shinjuku ward (Shinjuku-ku).
The complete trip takes approximately 50 minutes, but -and it's a part of the interest - you can enjoy for a day or an half-day trip by stopping at a few stations for sightseeing. The route aboard the old-style tram is quite charming and many spots are located along the line: small food shops, museums, parks, temples and shopping streets.
The One-Day Economy Pass (Ichi-nichi Josha Ken) will not charge your budget with its 400 yens and with which you can get-on and get-off so many times you want and experience the different car from retro to modern design. There are four Toei Streetcar pass sales locations (Waseda, in front of Otsuka Station, at the streetcar stop in front of Oji Station and Minowabashi).
Obviously, the streetcar's average speed is low, around 12Km/h but the chin chin densha -an other name for the Toden tram- klaxon is powerfull, I have experienced it when I was delayed on the railway, busy to take photographs... So you have time to explore the chin chin densha tram's interior and examine the ancient but very well maintained material: old speakers, mirrors, cranks...
The Toei Streetcat (Toden), Arakawa line, is the onely one streetcar remaining line in Tokyo. With of total lenght of 12 kilometers, the line runs between the Minowabashi station located in the Taito ward (Taito-ku) in the Northeast of Tokyo, and the Waseda sation located in the Shinjuku ward (Shinjuku-ku).
The complete trip takes approximately 50 minutes, but -and it's a part of the intrest- you can enjoy for a day or an half-day trip by stopping at a few stations for sightseeing. The route aboard the old-style tram is quite charming and many spots are located along the line: small food shops, museums, parks, temples and shopping streets.
The One-Day Economy Pass(Ichi-nichi Josha Ken) will not charge your budget with its 400 yens and with which you can get-on and get-off so many times you want and experience the different car from retro to modern design.
Danone yogurts in a Japanese supermarket and a picture of a Fauchon's white wine and milk ice cream were added (the ice cream is delicious).
The French group Danone has been present in Japan in fresh dairy droducts for over 20 years with the Danone brand through a joint venture currently operated with the Ajinomoto and Calpis Groups.
The French brandname Fauchon is very popular in Japan. In 1960, Fauchon introduced teas on the Japanese market and set up its first shop in Tokyo in 1972. Today, there are 110 Fauchon shops all over Japan and Fauchon's products are also sold in convenience stores and supermarkets.
2 photos of French "Charme de France Brie" cheese were added, the portions are small and... expensive.
Do you know Sembe? Sembe is a typical Japanese rice cracker. You can find a variety of Sembe with different tastes: spicy, wasabe, green tea... Please take a look here.
Yasukuni Jinja on the 60th anniversary of Japan's surrender
"The Yasukuni shrine (Yasukuni Jinja, 靖国神社 "peaceful nation shrine"), located in the Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is probably one of the well-known shrine in Japan. Not for its architecture or its design, but for the controversies in which it is involved.
Yasukuni Jinja has a long history. It was built more than 120 years ago in the 1869 by order of the Meiji Emperor to commemorate the victims of Boshin War. It was one of the principal shrines associated with State Shinto. Originally named Tokkyo Shokonsha (東京招魂社), the shrine was renamed Yasukuni Jinja in 1879. The shrine has performed Shinto rites to house the kami (spirits) of all Japanese and former colonial soldiers (Korean and Taiwanese) killed in conflict since then [wikipedia].
After Japan's defeat in World War II in September 1945, the US-led Occupation Authorities ordered Yasukuni to either become a secular government institution, or a religious institution that is independent from the Japanese Government. Yasukuni chose the latter. Since that time, Yasukuni has been completely privately funded.
Class-A war criminals from World War II were added to the list of the enshrined at the shrine in 1978, causing chronical polemics and ambiguities. Yasukuni is probably the temple of Hiro Hito nostalgics but the reasons for a visit may differ: nationalists, politics and old people in wheelchair does not visit necessarily Yasakuni Jinja for the same reasons...
It's why Yasukuni Jinja offers an amazing atmosphere, especially during commemorations. Group of schoolgirls, sightseeing tours, nostalgics of the imperial Japan, military-dressed nationalists, parades, policemen and monks, wounded people in wheel chair and middle-aged japanese coming to honour one of their family member victim of world war II mix with themselves.
Yasukuni Jinja on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The Yasukuni shrine (Yasukuni Jinja, 靖国神社 "peaceful nation shrine"), located in the Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is probably one of the well-known shrine in Japan. Not for its architecture or its design, but for the controversies in which it is involved.
Yasukuni Jinja has a long history. It was built more than 120 years ago in the 1869 by order of the Meiji Emperor to commemorate the victims of Boshin War. It was one of the principal shrines associated with State Shinto. Originally named Tokkyo Shokonsha (東京招魂社), the shrine was renamed Yasukuni Jinja in 1879. The shrine has performed Shinto rites to house the kami (spirits) of all Japanese and former colonial soldiers (Korean and Taiwanese) killed in conflict since then [wikipedia].
Class-A war criminals from World War II were added to the list of the enshrined at the shrine in 1978, causing chronical polemics and ambiguities. Yasukuni is probably the temple of Hiro Hito nostalgics but the reasons for a visit may differ: nationalists, politics and old people in wheelchair does not visit necessarily Yasakuni Jinja for the same reasons...
The photos were taken on August 14th and 15th, on the 60th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in world war two. Image files are available under the reference #001-000138 and a photostory is available here.
The Akihabara district is well knew for its heavy electronic goods shops concentration. Akihabara is also an entertainment district with cosplay shops and bars, huge games centers, stores selling anime characters and goods, and a palette of more confenditial shops, such as Gachapon Kaikan.
The Gachapon Kaikan is a capsule toy store located in a small street close to the Chuo avenue (Chuo dori). The tiny store has vending machines galore with more than 300 capsule toy vending machines.
How does it work? If you put in some coins -100 to 500 yen- then turn the dial, a capsule containing a small figurine will pop out. The machines feature one series or another, perhaps animals, robots, or characters... or even bondage figurines! With so many different types, you may end up putting in lots of money before the figurine you want comes out, or just for the fun.
Then, if you don't know what do a rainy in Tokyo, don't miss this address:
Gachapon Kaikan,
3-15-5, Soto Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
The store is really enjoying and you may share your capsule toy experience with a salaryman or a young couple smiling...
The Akihabara district is well knew for its heavy electronic goods shops concentration. Akihabara is also an entertainment district with cosplay shops and bars, huge games centers, stores selling anime characters and goods, and a palette of more confenditial shops, such as Gachapon Kaikan.
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