The Style Editor · Mei · Tokyo
Shimokitazawa Backstreets
I walk through Shimokitazawa whenever I need visual relief from the city's more aggressive surfaces. The shopfronts have texture. The streets have shadow.
The city's most legible analogue neighbourhood. Hand-painted signs, vintage stores, a human street scale Tokyo gave up elsewhere.
— Mei, The Style Editor
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