A Small Guide to Tokyo

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum — Komaba ◎ ’26

Mingei as a way of seeing: ordinary things, useful things, handmade things, given full attention.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT — Roppongi ○ ’26

Design treated as inquiry rather than lifestyle. A good room for seeing how Japan explains objects to itself.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT — Roppongi ○ ’26

Low, precise, and partly hidden. Architecture behaving more like a cut in the ground than a monument.

Tokyo Station — Marunouchi ○ ’26

A useful ending point that still knows how to carry ceremony, brick, movement, and departure.

Maruni — Tokyo ○ ’26

Furniture, wood, proportion, restraint. A room where design feels slower than the city outside.

LAMMAS — Tokyo ○ ’26

Cheese as a small specialist world. A good counterpoint to the predictable Tokyo shopping loop.

Nishiguchi — Tokyo ○ ’26

Marked by the recent path. Keep for now, then sharpen after the room is written properly.