Things to love about Japan

10 Mar 2008 Posted by Karin Fong in Design

I’m easing into this blog with a few snaps from a recent trip. Of course, everything there seems snap-worthy, what’s not to love? It was my second visit, to both Tokyo and Kyoto, and I can’t wait to go back.

characters that sell food…

a drawing of an octopus displayed at the tokyo fish marketan octopus outside the tokyo fish mart

a leaf character used to help sell real leavesa leaf hawks its wares in kyoto

Lighting…

super small tokyo bar filled with chandeliersfrom a tiny bar that our friends +cruz and myung-jin took us, with only space for a piano, 8 people upstairs…and a collection of chandeliers.

handmade lamps at Kyoto ryokanthese others look like the cousins of those Nelson lamps, but are instead handmade in a little workshop in kyoto. They are seen here in a traditional ryokan

designer playgrounds…

playground super modern swing

playground with modern slide

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