ART DIRECTION: STEVE NAKAMURA
GUEST PHOTO DIRECTOR: TAKASHI MURAKAMI, PHOTOGRAPHY: SHIN SUZUKI, STYLING: KAZUKI YUNOKI, HAIR AND MAKE-UP: ASUKA FUJIO (OTIE), CLOTHING: CHRISTIAN DADA
No, that’s not a homeless samurai on our cover but the legendary artist Takashi Murakami himself. In celebration of hitting double digits with our 10th issue, we asked Murakami to dress up to the nines and he turned up like he’d had one over the eight (we’ll stop with the numerical puns now). If you find his taste odd, you’ve got company – Murakami told us that people from a certain country don’t get his art. Grab our new issue (on shelf from March 31) to read the full interview, where we sat down with the iconoclast in his stomping ground, Nakano, to talk art and kick off our Great Tokyo Walks.
In this issue, we’ve put together 12 walking guides, giving you the chance to discover Tokyo’s art, shops, architecture and even ghosts in the city’s most exciting neighbourhoods. ’Tis the season for sakura, but after reading our list of the best spring festivals in town, you’ll see that there’s more to springtime than cherry blossoms. We also bring you four reasons to visit this year’s Setouchi Triennale, not to mention that it takes place once every three years! Head to the Seto Inland Sea to see some cutting-edge contemporary art whilst you’re island hopping. Perhaps you’ll also lay the eternal question to rest: Is it art or fart?
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Release details:
Title: Time Out Tokyo Magazine no. 10
Publication frequency: Four times per year (planned issues: 2016 - June, September, December)
Format: 297 mm x 225 mm (slightly larger than A4), 76 pages
Price: Free
Copies: 100,000
Distribution points
Distributed various locations nationwide. Please note that copies of the magazine may be limited at each distribution point.
Airports:
Haneda Airport
Narita International Airport
Tourist information centres:
Shibuya Station Tourist Information Desk
Shibuya Tourist Information Centre
Tokyo Tourist Information Centre at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
Hotels (copies only available for guests):
Conrad Tokyo
Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
The Peninsula Tokyo
The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo
Grand Hyatt Tokyo
Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
etc.
Shops:
Tower Records Shibuya
Books Kinokuniya Tokyo
Time Out Café & Diner
All HUB and 82 Ale House locations in the Kanto region.