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Wandering the streets of Tokyo's Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; disembodied voices from video screens; a freeway over your head; the smells and sounds of bars and noodle shops; fake fur everywhere. Then, the next morning, you look out a window and see another Japan: a hedge in which each leaf seems to have been clipped by hand; a couple of rocks placed, in some Zen way, just...
...Berthillon on the Ile St. Louis and the bistro Chez Georges. For years I passed that list around like samizdat. The idea of tapping into the experiences of globetrotters inspired this special supplement to TIME. We asked Louis Vuitton's Antoine Arnault to share his favorite destinations (one is Roppongi Hills, Tokyo). Peripatetic tennis star Maria Sharapova emphatically recommended the first-class flights on Emirates for their private rooms and candy. And designer Diane Von Furstenberg shared her inspiration from journeys to exotic locales like Rajasthan and Croatia...
Perhaps the most amusing time to take the metro is very early on weekend mornings from Roppongi or Shibuya. These areas, generally known for their nightclubs, tend to produce an exhausted group of dressed up young people who close the clubs in the morning and then fall asleep on the platforms while waiting for the trains...
...experience in Tokyo to fit neatly into pre-determined, necessarily punctuated storylines—the quest for the best ramen bar! My dangerous Fugu adventure!—my search turned up empty. Then came the nostalgic period. It started with the green tea bean jelly at the Roppongi Building in Tokyo Midtown. It continued with the lotus-seed bun at a local 7-Eleven and built right through the cow tongue before Karaoke, the glutinous rice balls at Miyajima, and the plum wine at a restaurant in downtown Tokyo that tasted exactly like Clearly Canadian’s Wild...
...Tokyo's Roppongi isn't the neighborhood it used to be. The sleaze has gone, replaced by major urban-renewal projects, such as the mega shopping complexes Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown. There's also a hefty dose of culture in what's being branded the "Roppongi Art Triangle," with the three points being the Mori Art Museum, the National Art Center and the Suntory Museum...