Issue 02

What caught our eye

Every week we walk the city so you don't have to. Here are the openings our team stopped for: the rooms, the counters and the shelves shaping Tokyo right now.

5 openingsNew restaurants · New shops

It's Obon, supposedly the quietest week of the year. And yet: a sumo ring went up at Tokyo Tower, Google opened its first store outside the US, and a tsukemen brand launched a miso-only shop. The city doesn't really slow down anymore.

New restaurants

2 openings

  • Tokyo TowerSumo show

    TOKYO SUMO CLUB ENTERTAINMENT

    A real dohyo on the fifth floor of Tokyo Tower, chanko nabe on the table. Built for foreign visitors, and blessed by two yokozuna before the doors opened.

    Source ↗See on the map ↗

  • MitaRamen

    つじ田 味噌の章 三田店

    Tsujita, the tsukemen name, opens a miso-only concept. One bowl, one broth, in a corner of Mita that had nothing like it.

    Source ↗See on the map ↗

New shops

3 openings

  • OmotesandoTech retail

    Google Store Omotesando

    Google's first own-brand store outside the US is now open. Three floors, an AI experience studio, and Japan's first Pixel repair counter.

    Source ↗See on the map ↗

  • KichijojiApparel

    CRONOS Kichijoji

    A small independent apparel label lands in Kichijoji, one of the most fought-over residential retail streets west of Shinjuku.

    Source ↗See on the map ↗

  • MachidaAnime goods

    Surugaya Machida Modi

    Surugaya, the secondhand anime and manga specialist, keeps pushing into suburbia. This one is inside the Machida Modi shopping centre.

    Source ↗See on the map ↗

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