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Where All the Cool Cats Hang in Tokyo

Shimokitazawa (下北沢) is just about the trendiest neighborhood in Tokyo. Also known as Shimokita for short, the district is a hub for stage theater and live music. With its numerous cafes, music outlets, vintage clothing stores, live music clubs, and cheap noodle shops, Shimokitazawa is incredibly popular with trendy students and hip young peoples all [...]

Japan, Source of All Hipsters

We all know them when we see them: those PBR-drinking, ironic-glasses-wearing, retro-fashion-sporting young cool kids. Hipsters. We like to think of hipsters as an American phenomenon, coming out of San Francisco or Brooklyn or Portland. But actually, you can blame hipsters all on the Japanese. What a lot of people don’t know is that the [...]