tokyo on foot travels in the city's most colorful neighborhoods

This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist’s eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations.

A temple nestles among skyscrapers the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops-often tangled in electric lines. Here you find business men and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles.

It isn’t the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist’s warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.įlorent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. OL15572149W Page_number_confidence 90.25 Pages 200 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211027091504 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 795 Scandate 20211022205727 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9784805311370 Tts_version 4.Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods Paperback – June 10, 2011 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:06:24 Autocrop_version 0.0.4_books-20210916-0.1 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40273024 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Tokyo on foot travels in the city's most colorful neighborhoods