Quiet Tokyo

I am missing it…

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Design Festa 32

Design Festa is a giant Art event in Tokyo (Big Sight) gathering hundreds and hundreds of Artist, mostly Japanese. From fashion clothes to innovative designs, furniture, art objects, paintings, toys, music and goodies… you can find anything. This is really interesting since nobody’s following any trend so you’re sure that you will discover many things [...]

Don’t expect any news for the next couple of days. I’m running out of memory and can’t store my last pictures on the laptop anymore And I’m leaving Tokyo tomorrow afternoon for Hong Kong. End of a nice journey in this marvelous island. I should be able to upload something this coming Sunday, so please [...]

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Like a vending machine

Marvelous Japanese invention: how to park a car when no space? Use giant shelves, come on! In Japan, because of the serious lack of free square meters, cars are parked using dedicated elevators and placed in small “boxes”. But since it’s also difficult to put the vehicles in the elevator, a stand, like a pivot, [...]

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Signs

Happy New Year, toilets, protect the kids and no smoking… please!