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42 places across Japan and South Korea
Shimokitazawa
Vintage shops and tiny live houses, no cars.
Nakano Broadway
Four floors of collectors selling to collectors.
Daikanyama T-Site
A bookshop worth crossing the city for, open until midnight.
Amerikamura
Osaka's streetwear quarter, loud and secondhand.
Seongsu-dong
Shoe factories turned into flagship stores and pop-ups.
Common Ground
Two hundred shipping containers stacked into a mall.
Starfield Library, COEX
Thirteen-metre bookshelves in the middle of a shopping mall.
Bosu-dong Book Street
An alley of second-hand bookshops since the war.
Nakamise-dōri
Two hundred metres of shopfronts leading to the temple.
Kappabashi Kitchen Street
Where Tokyo’s restaurants buy everything.
Jimbōchō Book Town
A hundred and fifty secondhand bookshops on one street.
Ginza Six
A department store with an art commission in the atrium.
Itōya
Twelve floors of paper, ink and nothing else.
Miyashita Park
A park on the roof of a shopping street.
Shibuya PARCO
The sixth floor is a game arcade of official shops.
Takeshita Street
Three hundred and fifty metres of pure noise.
Cat Street
The buried river that became a streetwear spine.
Omotesandō
An avenue of trees and famous architects.
BONUS TRACK
Small shops built on the old railway cutting.
Jiyūgaoka
The neighbourhood Tokyo shops in on a Saturday.
Kōenji Vintage Streets
Where Tokyo’s secondhand clothing actually comes from.
Asagaya Pearl Center
Seven hundred metres of covered shopping street.
Sunshine City
A city block indoors, for when it rains.
Teramachi & Shinkyōgoku Arcades
Two covered streets, four centuries of shops.
Tenjinbashisuji Shōtengai
Two and a half kilometres of covered shopping street.
Shinsaibashi-suji
Six hundred metres of roofed high street into Dōtonbori.
Orange Street, Horie
Furniture showrooms turned into the calm shopping street.
Namba Parks
A canyon of shops with eight floors of garden on top.
Insadong & Ssamziegil
A spiral of craft shops off the antiques street.
Myeongdong Shopping Street
Skincare, street food carts, and a great deal of noise.
Hongdae Walking Street
Buskers every twenty metres, from eight until late.
Gyeongui Line Book Street
A linear park of glass book pavilions on the old track bed.
Garosu-gil
A ginkgo-lined street of flagships and side lanes.
Apgujeong Rodeo
Old money, new labels, and a lot of resale.
Gwangjang Market Vintage Floor
Upstairs from the food, a floor of secondhand clothing.
Yeonmujang-gil
The street where Korean brands test their ideas.
Kyobo Book Centre Gwanghwamun
A bookshop with a hundred-seat table you may sit at all day.
Millimeter Milligram Hannam
Five floors of Korean design objects.
Itaewon Antique Furniture Street
Six hundred metres of imported antiques.
Dongdaemun Night Shopping
Fashion malls that open at eight in the evening.
Ttukseom Bridge Flea Market
A weekend market held in the shade of the flyover.
Jeonju Hanji Workshops
Mulberry paper, made here for a thousand years.