The View From Tokyo: why Laforet Harajuku is an epicentre for the city’s alternative creative ideas
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The View From Tokyo: why Laforet Harajuku is an epicentre for the city’s alternative creative ideas
Harajuku** itself is Tokyo’s youth culture capital, focused on the Takeshita Dori (east from the station), a narrow street lined with quirky shops and often even quirkier fashions.
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These small businesses, which are often run out of someone's home, owned by a family who are also the only employees, are what distinguishes Japan from all other developed nations, making life in it a notch above the rest. While the most obvious of these are restaurants (izakayas, monjayaki-yas, soba-yas, etc.), others are focused on specialized cr... See more
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