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Harajuku & Aoyama


Grill your own okonomiyaki (savoury pancakes) at this funky place inside the gallery Design Festa. In addition to classic options (with pork, squid and cabbage), there are some fun fusion-style ones. There's also a great-value, two-hour, all-you-can-eat plan (¥2500 plus one drink order).


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Nearby Harajuku & Aoyama attractions

1. Design Festa

Design Festa has long been a champion of Tokyo’s DIY art scene and its maze-like building is a Harajuku landmark. Inside there are dozens of small…

2. Kawaii Monster Cafe

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Artist and stylist Sebastian Masuda is behind the lurid colours, surrealist installations and other-worldly outfits of this darkly cute cafe. In the…

3. Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku

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The entrance to this castle-like structure by Nakamura Hiroshi is a dizzying hall of mirrors (which makes for a great photo); there’s a roof garden on top.

4. Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

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This small museum (where you swap your shoes for slippers) is the best place in Tokyo to see ukiyo-e. Each month it presents a seasonal, thematic…

5. Omotesandō Hills

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This deceptively deep concrete mall (2003), designed by Tadao Ando, spirals around a sunken atrium. Andō’s architecture utilises materials such as…

6. Dior Omote-sandō

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This five-storey glass building (2003) uses clever lighting and acrylic screens to pull off the effortlessly chic look of a breezy tiered skirt. Pritzker…

7. Watari Museum of Contemporary Art

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In a building (1990) by Swiss architect Mario Botta, Watari-Um stages exhibits that range from retrospectives of established art-world figures (such as…

8. Takeshita-dōri

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This is Tokyo’s famous fashion bazaar. It's an odd mixed bag: newer shops selling trendy, youthful styles alongside stores still invested in the trappings…