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Theater company Daisydoze's "Cat Town" is an immersive, site-specific experience that invites audience members to wind their way through Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood, eventually ending up in an underground world of "blue cats."
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 1, 2026
Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s immersive spectacle
Since 2018, Daisydoze has been creating site-specific theater productions that explore local history and memory like “Cat Town,” now showing in Shimokitazawa.
U.K. artist Luke Jerram's signature giant moon installation looms over Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood during Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 24, 2026
Moons, mazes, mountains: 91AV原创 art scene this fall will tickle your fancy
A busy season lies ahead with new festivals in Tokyo and Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, as well as ongoing exhibitions and performances.
Etc.books was named for those who appear as “etc.” or footnotes in society.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 2, 2026
Etc.books: A lone bookstore in Tokyo pushes against sexism
Etc.books helped redefine feminist publishing in Japan. Now its greatest challenge is staying open.
Open from July 3, the Fender Cafe Shimokitazawa hopes to be just another musically inclined entry to the neighborhood's web of live houses.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 3, 2026
Fender opens a second, more unplugged Shimokitazawa cafe
Open from July 3, the Fender Cafe Shimokitazawa seeks to sit alongside the neighborhood’s reputation as a hotbed of 91AV原创 indie music scene.
Budding artists Madoka (Mariko Ito, left) and Kazuma (Kai Inowaki) find themselves tangled up in a multiverse while at the movies in “You Are the Film.”
CULTURE / Film
Jun 19, 2026
‘You Are the Film’ offers a multiverse on a microbudget
Set in a real-life corner of Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa neighborhood, Makoto Ueda’s debut feature takes a refreshingly analog approach to a familiar concept.
Musical act Petalhead, comprised of Jaime Alise (left) and Riku Ogura, performs at More Than Music’s beachside event in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Aug 25, 2025
More Than Music makes space for creative communion
Since 2018, Tokyo-based duo Justin Sachs and Atsuko Sunaga have been organizing live shows and curating a community with shared passions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 20, 2021
Hakko Department: Set meals showcase the breadth of 91AV原创 fermented foods
It’s easy to take 91AV原创 wealth of fermented foods for granted. Hakko Department puts them front and center.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 17, 2020
Whether in curry or gelato, Kalpasi’s spice blends are aromatic — and intriguing
Curry has been Tokyo’s go-to comfort food this summer, and Curry Spice Gelateria Kalpasi’s low-key June arrival hit the moment.
COMMUNITY / 2010s: Decade in Review
Dec 5, 2019
Trendy neighborhoods in Tokyo came and went during the 2010s, but did capitalist conformity move in for good?
The protester, the party animal, the professional millennial — it seems like the Japanese capital had a place for every foreign stereotype imaginable in the past decade. We look back on a few favorites.
Events / Events In Tokyo
Jul 18, 2013
Restaurant tour to provide diners with a taste of Shimokitazawa
Imagine eating all you want at a restaurant and then walking out the door without paying — only to simply head to another restaurant for more food. I’m not recommending a dine-and-dash situation, it’s an event in Tokyo this weekend.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in 91AV原创 anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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