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KKAA ARCHITECTURE GUIDE TOKYO 2O17 KUMAP 1 CENTRAL TOKYO J R Y a 35 m BUILDINGS: 1 = NEZU KAMACHIKU 2 = WITHUS NEZU a n o t DAIWA UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING RESEARCH BUILDING H e 3 = o l n the University i n g e o of Tokyo 4 = KUROGI 5 = ASAKUSA TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER D Ueno Park o HULIC ASAKUSABASHI BUILDING r 6 = 7 = KAYANOYA IKEBUKURO K i a s u g a 1 2 TONETS BUILDING KITTE SHICHIJUNIKOU D 8 = 9 = 10 = o r i SUSHIDOKORO JUN TIFFANY GINZA e 11 = 12 = n i l GINZA KABUKIZA JUGETSUDO KABUKIZA 3 4 13 = 14 = e t o n a UENO m 33 ASAKUSA a Y BUILDINGS: KAGURA- 5 R J ZAKA r e 15 = GINZA SHOCHIKU SQUARE i v R 34 a 16 = SHINONOME CANAL COURT CODAN d i m KIHA- u 17 = THE CAPITOL HOTEL TOKYU A BARA S 6 18 = TOKYO MIDTOWN D-NORTH WING ASAKUSA- SUNTORY MUSEUM K the Imperial Palace BASHI 19 = o s h u K a i d LUCIEN PELLAT-FINET SHINJUKU o 20 = Akasaka Palace TOKYO MIDTOWN SHOP Jingu Gaien 10 Meiji Jingu Shrine 7 21 =KURAYAMIZAKA MIYASHITA 11 22 = BAISO IN TEMPLE Shinjuku Gyoen 9 TOKYO 23 = ESCORTER AOYAMA o r i a D y a m NEZU INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 23 A o 24 = 17 URAKU- 25 = NEZUCAFÉ Y CHO 8 HARAJUKU O 22 12 MIELE CENTER OMOTESANDO m 26 = o 28 21 t i e s r SUNNYHILLS JAPAN a n 18 o 27 = d D o o 27 19 20 u h 28 =ONE OMOTESANDO C 13 14 WAKETOKUYAMA Hibiya Park 29 = 26 15 30 = JR SHIBUYA STATION FAÇADE 31 = SHIBUYA STATION AREA 31 24 25 30 32 H REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT a r u m R o p p o n g i D o r i i D =RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY o 32 r i SHIBUYA 29 Roppongi Hills 33 = AKAGI JINJA SHRINE 16 Hamarikyu 34 = LA KAGU Gardens 35 = TOSHIMA CITY HALL Shiba Park 池 袋 e n i l 38 線 央 線 e 中 t o 手 n 吉 祥 寺 a m 高 J R C h u o l i n e a 山 Y R 環 J 尾 京 新 王 状 K 高 a 尾 m o K o s h u K a i d p a 宿 八 甲 街 道 c 州 線 e n h i l i 尾 o d a k 号 o 高 a r T i 王 o i e 線 K 京 39 渋 44 45 o 道 高 d 40 i 谷 a K 街 尾 n e a Y 猿 山 6 野 4 R 2 口 東 41 42 急 To 大 ky 川 u 井 二 子 玉 O im 町 a c h i 線 l i n 多 e T a 摩 m a 43 R 川 i v 等 e r 々 力 KUMAP 2 1 NEZU KAMACHIKU 2 WITHUS NEZU WESTERN TOKYO BUILDINGS: 36 = TECCHAN 37 = M2 38 = FOOD AND AGRICULTURE MUSEUM 49,40 = TAMAGAWA TAKASHIMAYA S.C. MAIN BUILDING PILOTI, MARRONIER COURT 41 = MURAI MASANARI ART MUSEUM 42 = TEIKYO UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHINJUKU e n i l 36 e t o n UDON restrant Care health facilities K I C H I J O Z I a m a 2-14-18, Nezu, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0031 2-14-18, Nezu, Bunkyo-ku,113-0031 C h u o l i n e J R Y +81 3 5815 4675 +81 3 5815 4665 R J TAKAO OPEN HOURS: 11:00-14:00 17:30-21:00 （L.O.20:30）, SUN 11:30-14:00, K a CLOSED ON MONDAY m K E I O T A K A O p a o Kamachiku is a famous udon restaurant c K o s h u K a i d HARAJUKU e h in Osaka, and this is their first shop in n i i l Tokyo. Nezu (along with its neighborhood, d o a o k Yanaka and Sendagi), still keeps Meiji Era r a T i (1968-1912) atmosphere and landscape, o i e spared from the air bombing during World K 37 War II. Many of the great writers and 42 intellectuals of Meiji loved this area. The 43 udon restaurant is in the site of a house o 38 d SHIBUYA for elderly people, also designed by KKAA. i a K The building is a renovation of an old n e a stone warehouse from 1913, which now Y 6 4 accommodates two rooms for dining. One 2 TAKAO- R is a classical type under high ceiling and YAMAGUCHI wide beams, and the other is of a modern taste with a good view of the garden. 39 40 J oToo R iky T mu o NIKOTAMAGAWA a O c k ihm y i u a cl hi i n l e i T n a e m a R i v e 41 TODOROKI r DAIWA UBIQUITOUS KUROGI ASAKUSA TOURIST HULIC ASAKUSABASHI BUILDING 3 COMPUTING RESEARCH BUILDING 4 5 INFORMATION CENTER 6 University Japanese sweets shop Tourist information center, Office building, gathering spots 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Daiwa Ubiquitous Research Building 1F, exhibition hall, cafe 1-22-16, Asausabashi, Taito-ku, 111-0053 +81 3 5841 5902（ Interfac- 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 2-18-9, Kaminarimon, Taito-ku,111-0034 +81 3 5822 5971 ulty Initiative in Information Studies） +81 3 5802 5577 +81 3 3842 5566 OPEN HOURS: 11:00-14:00 OPEN HOURS: The building is located in a busy wholesale The building was constructed for the [B1-3F,6F,7F] 9:00-20:00, district in Tokyo. The site was formerly a university’s new field of research on ubiq- This is a café run by one of Tokyo’s most [4F,5F,8F] 9:00-22:00, local junior high school, and its vicinity uitous computing. Our aim was to break highly-rated restaurants of Japanese [8F CAFE] 9:00-20:00 still keeps some bustling atmosphere away from conventional image of cam- cuisine, also located near the university. of the downtown. We planned to create puses that consist of hard materials such Inside the café and in the semi-outdoor In the corner premise of just 326㎡ an urban environment where the past as concrete, metal or stone, and to instead space with a famous Japanese garden at across Kaminari-mon Gate, the building and the present, offices and shops are design a soft building made with wood the back, guests can enjoy the view as well. was required to accommodate plural naturally combined. Technically, we drew and earth. Here, scalelike panels of natural programs such as tourist information ideas from traditional elements such as materials (wood and earth) gently undu- center, conference room, multi- wooden lattice or roofed mud wall, which late to form a smooth and organic façade. purpose hall and an exhibition space. on their own work as a façade for the At the center of the building comes an streets. For the new building, we applied organ-like aperture covered with soft horizontal ribbon windows, louvers and membrane. It joins the lane in the front ribbed precast concrete panels to express and the Japanese garden (part of the a nuanced façade. An office building, university president’s guest house) at which tends to be a massive chunk of the back. The opening also generates concrete, can be dissolved into a human a gentle and organic flow of light and scale structure like this. We are nostalgic wind in the campus, which is otherwise about so-called downtowns, but new at- dominated by the strict grid arrangement. tempts are needed to revive the life there. 7 KAYANOYA 8 TONETS BUILDING 9 KITTE 10 SHICHIJUNIKOU Grocery Office building Shopping center Japanese restaurant COREDO Muromachi3 1F, 1-5- 2-5-12, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, 104-0031 2-7-2, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-7001 Tokyo station hotel B1F, 1-9-1, 5, Muromachi, Nihonbashi, +81 3 5250 4112 +81 3 3216 2811 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-0005 Chuo-ku, 103-0022 OPEN HOURS: +81 3 6269 9401 +81 3 6262 3170 We worked on the façade of this building. MON-SAT[shop] 11:00-21:00, OPEN HOURS:WEEKDAYS 11:00-15:30 OPEN HOURS: 10:00-21:00 It features tenderness and smoothness [restaurant] 11:00-23:00, (L.O.14：30) 17:00-23:00(L.O.21：30), of nature. The aluminum louvers can be SUN AND HOLIDAY[shop] 11:00-20:00, SAT, SUN AND HOLIDAY 11:00-16:30 Kayanoya originates in Kuhara Shoyu multi-angled and decided by computer [restaurant] 11:00-22:00 (L.O.15：30) 17:00-23:00(L.O.21：30) , Kyushu, a soy sauce manufacturer calculation, in order to control the amount whose history dates back more than 120 of solar energy coming in so it would Discussion on preserving old buildings As the restaurant is in the basement years. The Kayanoya Shop in Nihonbashi reduce the load on ventilation. The tends to end up in keeping all or nothing. of Tokyo Station’s Marunouchi side, a is a reproduction of their traditional entrance hall is a subtly nuanced space With KITTE we aimed at a cohabitation of nationally designated important property warehouse which we visited in Kyushu. with reinterpretation of traditional ele- the old and new. The east side of the atrium asset, we planned the space with themes Shoyu wooden barrels float to the ments such as a lattice grid and washi.
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    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn CONTENTS 1 IN A JAPANESE GARDEN …........................................P3 2 THE HOUSEHOLD SHRINE ….....................................P23 3 OF WOMEN'S HAIR …................................................P36 4 FROM THE DIARY OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER …..........P43 5 TWO STRANGE FESTIVALS …....................................P73 6 BY THE JAPANESE SEA …..........................................P79 7 OF A DANCING-GIRL …..............................................P89 8 FROM HOKI TO OKI …................................................P102 9 OF SOULS ….............................................................P137 10 OF GHOSTS AND GOBLINS …...................................P142 11 THE JAPANESE SMILE …..........................................P152 12 SAYONARA! …........................................................P165 NOTES …....................................................................P170 CHAPTERONE In a Japanese Garden Sec. 1 MY little two-story house by the Ohashigawa, although dainty as a bird- cage, proved much too small for comfort at the approach of the hot season—the rooms being scarcely higher than steamship cabins, and so narrow that an ordinary mosquito-net could not be suspended in them. I was sorry to lose the beautiful lake view, but I found it necessary to remove to the northern quarter of the city, into a very quiet Street behind the mouldering castle. My new home is a katchiu-yashiki, the ancient residence of some samurai of high rank. It is shut off from the street, or rather roadway, skirting the castle moat by a long, high wall coped with tiles. One ascends to the gateway, which is almost as large as that of a temple court, by a low broad flight of stone steps; and projecting from the wall, to the right of the gate, is a look-out window, heavily barred, like a big wooden cage. Thence, in feudal days, armed retainers kept keen watch on all who passed by—invisible watch, for the bars are set so closely that a face behind them cannot be seen from the roadway.