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Mark Carney in Tokyo: Coffee, conversation and how to lead a charm offensive
“Shall we go for a little walk? Grab a coffee nearby?” he asked. It sounded like a perfect start to a sunny Saturday in March. After all, we’d both earned it. He’d already been…
Five days, three cities and 10 discoveries to take home
This week The Faster Lane touched down in Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo for a bit of market surveillance, cocktailing with subscribers and friends, and even some rapid retail immersion in Aoyama with a…
How Tokyo’s Teddy Brown elevates the humble hamburger
Teddy Brown in Hiroo brings Japanese rigor to crafting the perfect hamburger with ‘kuroge’ Wagyu, housemade sauces and meticulously crafted buns. Marble tables, oak chairs and kooky lamps complete an experience worth savouring.
Tokyo’s best barmen are serving timeless elegance at the Palace Hotel
Inside the Palace Hotel Tokyo’s Royal Bar where award-winning chief bartender chief bartender, Manabu Ohtake and his team take centre stage.
Kaptain Sunshine’s international expansion highlights global appeal of Japanese craftmanship
Japanese designer Shinsuke Kojima is widening his reach. Kaptain Sunshine’s shops, shows and silhouettes are now causing a global buzz.
Snow outside, champagne inside and my belated trip to Tokyo
1. I spoke too soon. It was all going beautifully last Saturday afternoon as Swiss flight LX160 to Tokyo Narita prepared to push back from the gate. If you caught last week’s column, I…
A custom Tokyo tour for Mom
It’s Saturday midday in Zürich and it’s snowy, blustery and comfortably cosy. My mother and I just boarded the Swiss LX 160 to Tokyo Narita, mom is across the aisle and I’m looking forward…
A small mystery in Singapore sent my print-mad heart on an Asian odyssey
Singapore Residents and occasional visitors to the microstate might recall our little bureau/boutique/café operation in a modernist townhouse in Chip Bee Gardens. As far-flung outposts go, it still ranks as the best set-up we’ve ever…
How a chairman, a movie star and a secret made my week
Do you use your Sunday to look back over the past five or six days and take stock? Or are you one of those look-ahead types who ploughs on and does little in the…
Far from a closed book, Tokyo’s T-Site matters more than ever
I’m generally averse to recommendation lists. Every city has been Google Doc’d and mapped to death, especially Tokyo. And yet there’s one longtime Monocle favourite where I always send visitors: Tsutaya Books in Daikanyama,…
