Haruki Tanaka
Yanaka craft studios to Ginza design
Based in Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo design and shopping writer on Yanaka craft ateliers, Kappabashi's tool streets and the makers behind Ginza's counters.
Latest stories
Yanaka, Tokyo: Old-Tokyo Streets, Cats and Temples
A slow, pre-war corner of Tokyo where Yanaka Ginza still smells of croquettes at dusk, temple lanes run deep, and the city remembers how to walk.
Shinjuku, Tokyo: the city that never quite stops
A walk through Tokyo’s busiest hub, where station tunnels, yakitori smoke, skyline views and tiny bars all pull in different directions at once.
Shimokitazawa, Tokyo: Tokyo’s Scruffiest Indie Quarter
A walk through Shimokitazawa, where vintage racks, live houses and tiny bars still outnumber polished façades, and the neighbourhood’s old character survives the redevelopment around it.
Shibuya, Tokyo: the crossing, the clubs and the quiet lanes beyond
From the Scramble Crossing to alley bars and rooftop parks, Shibuya is Tokyo at full throttle — and, if you know where to turn, surprisingly hushed.
Ginza, Tokyo: the polished district where Tokyo eats, shops and drinks well
Tokyo’s most grown-up neighbourhood folds flagship retail, serious sushi, basement ramen and precise cocktail bars into a grid that feels calm at street level and intensely curated above it.
Asakusa, Tokyo: Old Edo Still Breathing on the Sumida
Tokyo’s most lived-in temple town still runs on incense, tempura, river wind and cheap drinks — a district where old Edo isn’t staged so much as continued.
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