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Mystic Beach (Japan)

By Dennis ⋅ November 24, 2008 ⋅ Plan this trip!

The white beach that only appears at low tide. Yurigahama Beach has “hoshinosuna (star sand)” which is the shell of foraminifera in the sand. The saying is if you find and pick up same number of hoshinosuna as your age, you will be happy. It is certainly a breathtakingly beautiful scene with mysterious mood, and [...]

Hipsters Club (Tokyo, Japan)

By Dennis ⋅ November 8, 2008 ⋅ Plan this trip!

Japan is known globally as a fashion-forward country and Tokyo is its artistic epicentre. Maybe that’s why the Tokyo Hipsters Club was described by its designer as a “pleasantly brutal space… a piece of antiarchitecture by a nonarchitect.” The Tokyo Hipsters Club was created around the concept of ‘aristocracy gone wrong’. Tom Dixon, British designer [...]

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