Huge Fish Market ~ Tsukiji on Japanology Plus!

Tokyo's Tsukiji Market on Japanology Plus...

"The world's largest fish market -- hundreds of kinds of seafood from around the world are sold there. 40,000 people work at Tsukiji each day, and hordes of foreign tourists come to check out the vast, buzzing hive of activity. This time [...] we explore the customs and commerce of Tsukiji Market. Our guest is Masataka Fujiwara, a seafood expert who's been visiting Tsukiji regularly for more than 30 years."

And here's more intimate details...

Waterfront Cities ~ Blending Beauty & Business!

Waterfront Cities series, starting with Singapore... Copenhagen... San Francisco... Boston... Melbourne... Tokyo... Bangkok... Vancouver...

Tecorep ~ Taisei's Floor-by-Floor Deconstruction

CNN spots Japanese super general contractor Taisei perfecting their Tecorep (Taisei Ecological Reproduction System) taking down a skyscraper by deconstructing from the inside and systematically lowering the remaining building... See also competitor Kajima's bottom-down approach...

Giken ECO Cycle ~ Japanese Robo Underparks!

Thanks to OddityCentral for spotlighting Danny Choo's latest video of Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan, the ECO Cycle by Giken Seisakusho... Inhabitat's Lidija Grozdanic shares some of the inner workings... What makes Giken so interesting as a company is their enabling technology, harnessing the Press-In Method, for quiet and low environmental-impact construction.

Android Dreams ~ Cockedey's Tokyo Timelapse...

Neatorama spots Cockedey's Tokyo timelapse Android Dreams...

"A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose atmospheric work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses, as well as for entire generations of filmmakers. I hope this will make many of you want to revisit (or discover if you haven't yet) this genre-defining movie."

Tokyo Transit ~ Metro-Regional Rails Supermap!

Click on this amazing unified map of all Tokyo metro-railways... I found this reading Stephen Smith's Atlantic piece Why Tokyo's Privately Owned Rail Systems Work So Well.

Tokyo Skypartment ~ Roboparking + Penthouse

Brilliant solution to tight property constraints and need for income and housing in Lloyd Alter's Treehugger piece In Tokyo, Parking Cars Makes More Money Than Parking People...

"Land assembly is tough in Tokyo; families often have owned little tiny plots for generations. These become their main source of income and they rarely sell them, to develop them, they often build really silly and inefficient sliver buildings with minuscule footprints. This one, by Martin Van Der Linden of Van Der Architects, has a floor area of 74.4 square meters, or 800 square feet. [...] When the owners of a rather small plot of land in Central Tokyo approached us to design an apartment complex the discussion on return on investment quickly led to the idea to forget about apartments and to start thinking about parking. A parking tower has the possibility to create on a relatively small plot of land a high return on investment. The idea to make use of the almost fanatical desire to own a car and to take it to the centre of Tokyo (where it needs to be parked). The parking tower with a penthouse at the top is an opportunistic way of living in the centre of Tokyo while using other people's money to pay for the mortgage."