Tokyo Style

Here’s your chance to snoop around real Tokyo homes.

A revival of Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s cult 90s photobook, this Japan style guide goes where no other dares to go: into people’s bedrooms before they’ve had the chance to tidy up.

Following the collapse of Japan’s infamous bubble economy, Tsuzuki spent two years traversing Tokyo's neighbourhoods on his green Honda 5cc scooter, capturing authentic, lived-in homes and very ordinary lifestyles.

This is not your usual Tokyo style guide, but rather an unfiltered and intimate portrait of Japanese domesticity. Peak around studio spaces, Snoopy collections and the ubiquitous kotatsu - a low formica table with a heating unit on the underside.

“Bookstore shelves are lined with more publications on ‘Japanese space’ than you’d ever want to see… But how many of these places look lived in? That’s because what these books show are the co-creations of known architects and photographers, or else very skillful presentations of designer products. It’s because no one can live like those pictures that they make attractive showpieces” – Kyoichi Tsuzuki.