Husband operates chic product design, wife cuisine Founded by Yuto Yamazaki, Alloy is a designer boutique that creates products and interiors by combining engineering—material knowledge and processing technology—and design. Alloy sells metal furniture parts, coffee accessories, flower vases, and other products, such as mini cutlery made of leather and metal as well as glassware that fits into your hand. The cutlery, cash trays, and...
Independent house type store in Nakameguro displays popular women’s line In December 2019, VISVIM opened WMV VISVIM TOKYO in Nakameguro, which mainly sells the women’s line WMV. The store is in a fully renovated house built in the 1970s along the Meguro River, with the pillars, beams, and roofs intact. The designer Hiroki Nakamura worked on the interior design. There are many highlights in...
Selected books that stimulate intellectual curiosity Daikanyama T-Site is a lifestyle-focused commercial facility centered on the Tsutaya Bookstore, and with several other facilities, such as a bakery. Every time you come here, there is something new happening. Tsutaya Bookstore, the focal point of T-Site, hosts a wonderful selection of Japanese and English titles, new and old. The display, featuring stationery, food, and sundries among...
Designer creates graphic textile design While fashion designers and apparel companies usually buy ready-made textiles from manufacturers, Minä Perhonen’s designer, Akira Minagawa, always creates collections starting from textile design, often drawing inspiration from nature, with a chic color palette that nods to Scandinavia and adds graphic patterns. The simple silhouette emphasizes the textile patterns. The mood is poetic and tender, not unlike a fairytale....
Roadside store offers items for babies, children Kodomo Beams in Daikan-yama is an affiliate of Beams that sells infant’s and children’s products. The store is 150㎡ and frequently changes its layout due to its movable fixtures, offering a fresh impression for each visit. Since Kodomo Beams handles delicate children’s products, it emphasizes safety for the interior of the store and uses healthy and environmentally...
Japanese sneaker brand opens flagship shop in Ginza Founded as a manufacturer of split-toe socks in 1873, Moonstar later entered the sneaker market. This long-established company has always aimed to make sneakers that are easy to wear and walk in. The company is a major player in vulcanized shoe construction, which involves baking shoes in a kiln, and is done well by only a...
From fashion to craft to culture, store introduces modern Japanese products Beams opened the Beams Japan store in Shinjuku in April 2016 to display the various attractive aspects of Japan. From the first level to the fifth floor, this shop has fine regional items, select fashion brands, Beams’ goods made in collaboration with other brands, pop culture, fine art, and traditional craft. It has...
Warm textile products, modern lifestyle goods Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten was founded in Nara Prefecture in 1716 as a wholesale store of handwoven hemp fabrics. This long-standing house even exhibited hemp handkerchiefs at the Paris Exposition in 1925. Although machines are now used for some processes of the products, some of its hemp fabrics are still handspun and handwoven. These products place an emphasis...
Experience tasting high-quality Japanese sake in Roppongi Yaegaki Sake & Spirits,Inc. has been making sake in Hyogo Prefecture for more than 350 years. Its finest brand, named after its founder, Hasegawa Eiga, was launched in 2018. These sakes are carefully crafted using Yamada Nishiki, the best sake-brewing rice. They are made using traditional methods, such as fukuro shibori, a manual extraction process that captures...
From boots to denims, discover the best in Harajuku After working as a designer at an internationally recognized brand, Hiroki Nakamura launched his own label in 2000, with shoes as the first step. In 2013, he expanded his brand to include a menswear line, VISVIM, and a womenswear line, WMV. His boots are his signature design, constructed with the highest-quality vegetable-tanned leather from Horween...
