STYLEFORUM DOES JAPAN

[nahneun]

yes, suntory does make yamazaki, but the distillery itself is osaka. the kyoto brewery is for the beers. i would not be surprised if they carried yamazaki there though.

 

[planetarium]

kapital shop in kyoto owns, but of course they all do
roppongi has kapital legs which is also cool
classic piece of denim/indigo nerd culture: the Evisu employees who will hand paint your jeans. each city has a special color of paint.

don't go to a maid cafe if you don't speak japanese

if you do speak japanese, either go to the one where they pretend to be your little sister welcoming you home from school or go to a tsundere bar so you can be yelled at and served the wrong thing, possibly forced to drink some weird mix of leftovers

 

[nahneun]

are you ******* serious? there are little sister-themed and tsundere-themed maid cafes? really. wow.

#imouto for sure

 

[Best Budz]

The tour I went on in Kyoto only covered whiskey and their whiskey facilities and all the samples at the end were various whiskies. Just sayin'

 

[notwithit]



are you ******* serious? there are little sister-themed and tsundere-themed maid cafes? really. wow.

#imouto for sure

I've been to Tokyo. They sell little-girl underwear in the vending machines right on the main drag, the Ginza, or whatever. Guys in suits buying used girl panties. How is that okay? That's not okay.

 

[planetarium]

there's a maid cafe for everything, any kind of cosplay you want, surprisingly good portraits of you in ketchup on rice omelettes, servers in rabbit costumes who sing songs about the food from the perspective of rabbits, etc.

 

[planetarium]

i went to a beetle cafe but the beetles didn't serve me

i also hit up Rabbit and Grow Fat and the little cat cafe just across from it, but I wasn't able to make it to the penguin bar.

 

[nahneun]



The pantie vending machine is less surprising to me

 

[nicelynice]

There's no used to panty vending machines in Tokyo. In sex shops, there's novelty panty vending machines, but is that a big deal? There WERE some maybe 10 years ago in Akihabara, but that has long since been cracked down on. Anyways, tech is changing - now girls sell them directly over Twitter

HEY

So, I'm going to be in Tokyo along with Synthese. We're compiling a list of places we might go check out and write about––here are some preliminary ideas:

Come to my house for dinner

 

[Journeyman]

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That was a thing, for a short period of time, quite a long time ago. I don't think that it's been allowed for quite a few years now. As with a lot of "OMG how funny/odd Japan is" stuff, it was blown out of proportion by foreign media.

 

[penanceroyaltea]

HEY

So, I'm going to be in Tokyo along with Synthese. We're compiling a list of places we might go check out and write about––here are some preliminary ideas:

Attachment flagship
Lift
Hanae Mori Building (mentioned here earlier I think)
Isetan Men
Visvim Indigo Camping Trailer
Dover Street Market
Lad Musician flagship
Kind (for all you rakuten junkies out there)

Where else do you want us to go? I'll do my best to drag Synth to a maid cafe.

CDG flagship! (Junya is there too)

 

[notwithit]



The pantie vending machine is less surprising to me

There's no used to panty vending machines in Tokyo. In sex shops, there's novelty panty vending machines, but is that a big deal? There WERE some maybe 10 years ago in Akihabara, but that has long since been cracked down on. Anyways, tech is changing - now girls sell them directly over Twitter
Come to my house for dinner

That was a thing, for a short period of time, quite a long time ago. I don't think that it's been allowed for quite a few years now. As with a lot of "OMG how funny/odd Japan is" stuff, it was blown out of proportion by foreign media. 

It's a quote from The Informant! starring Matt Damon.

 

[Mesta]

Such a great news Synthese!

I don't know if there any ways I can help. I have a doc with a LOT of japanese brands (over 100) that I saved over the years of my Japan obsession.

What I would love to see are capsules about craftmanship and japanese culture about dressing and creating clothes.

As soon as I'm there (late this year or early next year), I'll try to create way more content about japan fashion. I have a project of calatoging subcultures: fashion mixed with arts. But my pen skills are lacking

CDG flagship! (Junya is there too)

I'd add the UC store in Aoyama with all the music covers on their walls.

 

[TheObserver]

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This is bizarre. Probably just a difference in cultrure.

 

[Lionheart Biker]

Julius and Devoa store would be cool to see, if you have the time.