Bunka Fashion College

Tokyo’s most famous fashion school, Bunka is where some of the city’s most radical designers were shaped before going on to define runways globally. The campus itself is a strange mix of clinical classrooms and experimental style spilling out onto Shinjuku sidewalks, with graduates and current students in fits that often feel a season ahead of the industry.

While it’s obviously not a tourist attraction in the usual sense, if you’re chasing fashion inspiration or even thinking about where to study, Bunka is the spot – and the starting line for so much of what ends up on Tokyo’s streets.