Books Recommended by the Concierge Vol.48-49
All Shiba Park Hotel guests are welcome to use the Library Lounge on the first floor. Omotenashi Concierges recommend books to you from Japanese and foreign books. Please enjoy a moment to read books.
All Shiba Park Hotel guests are welcome to use the Library Lounge on the first floor. Omotenashi Concierges recommend books to you from Japanese and foreign books. Please enjoy a moment to read books.
Author: Masao Yamada
Publisher: hamonicabooks
This book presents 21 famous architectures in Tokyo. The presenter is Masao Yamada, an expert in urban design. The book clearly explains historical backgrounds, architectural techniques, and the most interesting aspects of architecture. Moreover, Masao Yamada is a prominent authority on “quick sketching”. Each of the structures highlighted in the book is presented as handdrawing sketches, with no photographs. His gentle touch allows the reader to look at these austere buildings with ease, as if reading a picture book. Most of the architectures are located in within an hour of our hotel, with Tokyo Tower featured near the Shiba Park Hotel. What makes Tokyo so unique is that even today, after so much time has passed, you can still see the architecture that once played such an important role in Japan’s modern history. As the title suggests, this book showcases Tokyo’s famous buildings in “picturesque” detail.
I recommend you to get a information and discover for yourself.
Author: BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA Book Editorial Department
Publisher: BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA
In recent years, coffee shops with a retro atmosphere have been popular in Japan among younger generation and foreign tourists by the influence of social media. It seems that they find attractive points for eating a cream soda, a pudding, and a Neapolitan-style spaghetti which are an old-fashioned standard menu in retro coffee shops reminiscent of Showa era. This book is a series of guidebook which created for traveling around Tokyo with a single theme, it is about coffee shops in this time. The advisors introduce special places according to the theme in this book. How about spending time while chatting with a master of retro coffee shops at a counter seat in quiet space? When you take this book in your hand, you may be able to get a chance to enjoy a cup of coffee in a different from usual.
