Treasures Inside a Tunnel: Osaka’s Shark Attack

A hidden antique store in the quiet Japanese neighborhood of Nakazaki-cho, Osaka

Opened in 2013 in Japan’s Kansai region, the commercial complex of Grand Front Osaka stands just outside the Osaka train station, offering weary travelers a long list of high-end stores and restaurants (including the World Beer Museum that seats up to 700) with a hotel, office space and residential apartments located on the higher stories of the skyscrapers. Though this multi-building development is a major …

Tokyo’s Pass The Baton Adds a Personal Touch to Vintage

Our visit to the concept consignment shop's location in Omotesando, where items bear the owner's photograph and an anecdote

Located at the edge of the Tadao Ando-designed Omotesando Hills shopping complex, a few floors underground into basement territory, is the “new recycle” shop Pass the Baton. The space (one of two locations in Tokyo) hosts an orderly explosion of used and repurposed items, making customers feel as if they’ve walked into a wonderland where a sense of time and location dissipates. A lamp that …