• Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

    Elulu by Jam sits underneath the Tokaido Main railway in the aNz vintage shop inside the Sakura building in Nakazakicho neighborhood.
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    Elulu by JAM sits underneath the Tokaido Main railway in Nakazakicho.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The modernist back room of the Aura boutique in Nakazakicho.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Daisy, a frilly boutique in Nakazakicho.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Daisy, a frilly boutique in Nakazakicho.

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    Lila, an antique and vintage fashion store in Nakazakicho that is also the flagship Osaka retailer for Tokyo-based kawaii brand, Katie.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    A hidden, nameless menswear shop located behind a sliding door, atop a cafe.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

    aNz vintage shop inside the Sakura building in Nakazakicho
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    Anz vintage shop inside the Sakura building in Nakazakicho.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The entryway to the bite-size store Key, inside Nakazakicho’s Sakura building.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The facade of new-and-vintage boutique Yamastore.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Inside Yamastore, where vintage freezers and tree branches are used to merchandise product.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Inside Yamastore, where vintage freezers and tree branches are used to merchandise product.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The ceiling of the Kakavaka boutique, located on the third floor of a repurposed Shinsaibashi building.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Inside Yamastore, where vintage freezers and tree branches are used to merchandise product.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Inside the vintage and new boutique Anfan Teriburu in Shinsaibashi.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The entryway to Jūyon in Shinsaibashi.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

    The entryway to Psychic Shop in Shinsaibashi
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    The entryway to Psychic Shop in Shinsaibashi.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Vintage telephones are used as merchandising props at Psychic Shop.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

    Psychic Shop in Shinsaibashi.
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    The ceiling of Psychic Shop in Shinsaibashi.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The bathroom at Psychic Shop.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The stairwell at Psychic Shop, leading to the boutique’s second floor.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Psychic Shop’s second floor — swathed in pink satin.

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    A detail at Psychic Shop.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    Aida under the railway in Nakazakicho.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    A row of boutiques north of the railway in Nakazakicho – with a sliding door that leads to the menswear shop, Fethers Goffa.

  • Store Scouting: Osaka’s Fashion Fun Ride

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    The interior of HNW boutique in Nakazakicho.

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