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sneaker wall
When I was working on my story about sneakerheads a couple years ago, I met Nigo, the Japanese creator of the A Bathing Ape line of streetwear and sneakers. So on this, my first visit to Tokyo, I had to go see the new Bape store, which opened in 2005.
The two-story Bapexclusive shop in the Aoyama district has neon-lit stairs that change colors as you ascend. Trippy. Shoes that aren't displayed on glass shelves against the floor-to-ceiling windows (shown above) move around on a conveyer belt in the middle of the top floor. And unlike most Japanese sales people, who are obsequiously polite, the model-like clerks here are just as disaffected as the ones in Soho. Go figure.
sneaker wall
When I was working on my story about sneakerheads a couple years ago, I met Nigo, the Japanese creator of the A Bathing Ape line of streetwear and sneakers. So on this, my first visit to Tokyo, I had to go see the new Bape store, which opened in 2005.
The two-story Bapexclusive shop in the Aoyama district has neon-lit stairs that change colors as you ascend. Trippy. Shoes that aren't displayed on glass shelves against the floor-to-ceiling windows (shown above) move around on a conveyer belt in the middle of the top floor. And unlike most Japanese sales people, who are obsequiously polite, the model-like clerks here are just as disaffected as the ones in Soho. Go figure.