Culture
Retail
Report
Novel ideas— Tokyo
Preface
As the big media store chains disappear, Japan’s most successful book, music and magazine seller has opened a project that challenges everyone. We visit the floors of a refreshed retail landscape.
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01Tsutaya Books’ second-floor Anjin lounge has armchairs, art and ambience
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02The lounge is a comfortable café by day and a bar by night
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03The concierge desk
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04Light meals, coffee, wine and cocktails are served in the lounge
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05Stairway from the ground-floor bookstore to the lounge
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06Live music acts will perform at the lounge
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07Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture designed the complex
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08The shop’s jazz section sports audio equipment by McIntosh
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09Back issues of Japanese and Western magazines next to books and art for sale
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