Tokyo Fashion City: A Detailed Guide to Tokyo’s Trendiest Fashion Districts

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The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs on this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion.

Tokyo is regarded as one of the crucial world’s style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guidebook, part fashion photography album, Tokyo Fashion City takes a stroll through eight Tokyo neighborhoods, every with its own unique fashion characteristics, to peer what streetwise young Tokyoites are wearing, where they are shopping, what they are eating and drinking, and where they are hanging out.

Author Philomena Keet and photographer Yuri Manabe accompany the reader to Harajuku where high fashion rubs shoulders with hip-hop style; to Shibuya, birthplace of the “gal” and stomping ground for Tokyo’s such a lot sophisticated fashionistas; to hipster hangout Daikanyama; to the goth and geek meccas of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro; to bohemian Koenji and otaku neighborhood Nakano; to Ginza’s lunching ladies and dapper gentlemen; to the cosplay paradise of Akihabara; and to the narrow lanes of East Tokyo, where on a regular basis Japanese fashion gets a traditional touch.

Each chapter is packed with photographs of young fashionistas captured as they go about their day by day lives, with info-wealthy captions, and insightful text giving the background to the trends and tribes featured. With the inclusion of area maps, and shop and cafe listings, Tokyo Fashion City is an indispensable resource for readers wishing to keep a finger on Tokyo’s style pulse.

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