

“Tokyo Kousaten”
Find out what sparks creativity in local artisans and professionals
While diligently upholding the past’s ideas and traditions, from art to music to food and infinitely more, Tokyo is a city that never stops pushing forward to embrace the latest technological advances. “Tokyo Kousaten”, a new television program from TV TOKYO Corporation that showcases those parts of Japan’s capital where past and present intersect in uniquely dazzling and balanced ways as the program title "kousaten" which means "crossroads", suggests. Check the TokyoTokyo website each month for English-language versions of “Tokyo Kousaten” videos.
Soba chef
Yoshinori Horii
Fashion designer
Nanako Kuroda
Edo-style woodblock print carver
Jiro Nagao
Edo Armor Craftsman
Tadayasu Okoshi
Kabuki actor
Nakamura Toranosuke
Kabuki wig stylist
Tadashi Kamoji
Sekitei (rakugo theater manager)
Yoshimitsu Mayama
Bartender
Hidetsugu Ueno


