Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo

The Tommy Building stands three minutes from the JR Kokubunji Station, situated along a gentle slope in the Minamicho district. This structure rises five stories above ground with one additional level below, containing a variety of offices…

Inokashira Park is defined by the narrow, winding Inokashira Pond that anchors its center, its surface often hidden beneath the drifting petals of hundreds of cherry trees. Opened in nineteen seventeen as Japan's first suburban park, the…

Shinjuku Pit Inn occupies the basement of the Accord Building in the Shinjuku Ni-chome neighborhood, a space distinguished by rows of seats that point directly toward the stage. It operates as an intimate listening room where the audience…

The Waseda International House of Literature, also known as the Haruki Murakami Library, is defined by the curved wooden panels tracing wave-like lines across its white exterior. Opened in October two thousand twenty-one on the Waseda…

Hatonomori Hachiman Shrine is marked by the presence of a miniature, six-meter-tall replica of Mount Fuji rising from the ground. Known as a fujizuka, this mound was constructed in seventeen eighty-nine for commoners who could not make the…

Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium, which opened on October twenty-third, nineteen twenty-six, is defined by its low-profile concrete stands and its placement within the tree-lined landscape of the Meiji Jingu Gaien parkland. Owned by the Meiji…

Sotobori Park is a long, narrow strip of greenery that follows the path of the outer moat of the former Edo Castle for two kilometers. You can identify it by the promenade that sits one level higher than the surrounding roads, creating a…

The Okura Tokyo stands out for its pair of glass towers that rise above the Toranomon district, housing a lobby that intentionally replicates the famous midcentury modernist interior of the hotel that stood on this site from nineteen…