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Urbanation

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Urbanation - Sake and Ryokans

Another short clip from Urbanation, this time about sake and Ryokans. Searching for alternatives for those expensive hotels? You might want to check out the traditional ryokans guest houses.
Even though the family-run mini-hotels are being pushed out of the market by the big chains, there are still enough to be found in the suburbs. In [...]

Urbanation - Extreme Shopping

Here’s the second clip from the show Urbanation, and it’s about Extreme shopping!
First up is Ragout, a boutique in Harajuku where they customise sneakers out of materials you bring. Ragout uses light colored sneakers which are dyed. The most popular designs are cheap prints of American cartoon figures that you can select in the [...]

Urbanation - Indoor Snowboarding

To break the silence I’m uploading a few clips of a show called Urbanation which I recorded a few days ago.
Snova is one of the many indoor snowboarding locations where boarding pro Debban trains out of season. The indoor slope has half pipes, ramps and rails. On the weekend the slope is so popular [...]