Tokyo – ANIMAL

Tokyo’s Line for Cronuts Just As Long As New York’s

June 22, 2015 Liam Mathews

The cronut, baker Dominique Ansel’s croissant-donut hybrid, was the biggest story in New York food in 2013. The craze here has since died down, but there are still long early morning lines at the new Dominique Ansel Bakery in Tokyo, which opened June 20. A reporter for Rocketnews24, an English-language Japanese news site, went to […]

New Study Says New York Is The World’s Most Wasteful Big City

May 8, 2015 Liam Mathews

CityLab reports on a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds that New York is the world’s most resource-greedy city with a metropolitan area of more than 10 million people. The study, led by the University of Toronto’s Christopher Kennedy, looked at how 27 “megacities” consume resources and generate […]

A Female Loner Chases Fargo’s Bounty in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

March 13, 2015 Liam Mathews

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a movie about obsession, isolation, and the extent to which people will go to escape reality. The drama follows Kumiko, masterfully played by Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi, as she travels from her dreary, lonesome life in Tokyo to Minnesota in search of a briefcase full of money that Steve Buscemi’s […]

NYC BMX Riders Take Japan

January 15, 2014 Andy Cush

The team at Animal Bikes — the similarly-named-but-otherwise-unrelated-to-ANIMALNewYork.com BMX company — went to Japan last year, and is dropping a new video next week. They released this six-minute promo today, featuring some ridiculous footage of the team shredding in Tokyo. Look out for Tyrone Williams, star of our Citi Bike BMX video, at around 1:45. […]

Take a Dizzying Hyperlapsed Ride Through Tokyo’s Yurikamome Transit System

June 24, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

If you enjoy kaleidoscopes, world travel, tinky ambient music, or the olde 1999 hit PC game RollerCoaster Tycoon, then you will love this hyperlapse video. Filmmaker darwinfish105 created this visual wild ride by shooting from the back of Tokyo’s Yurikamome transit system and then altering it with a bunch of crazy mirror and vertical flip effects […]

Tokyo’s Morgue-Like Communal Micro-Apartments

March 1, 2013 Eugene Reznik

Maybe you saw those ‘aerial’ photos last week of Hong Kong’s cramped apartments where “square-footage count routinely dips into double digits”? Today, the Daily News has dug up photos of similar housing over in Tokyo where “communal” spaces make Bloomberg’s micro-apartments look like mansions. This morgue-like housing kind of brings a whole new meaning to […]