Tokyo

Place

Tokyo

Japan’s capital, where pop, electronic, ambient and underground scenes have long shared the same city.

Tokyo is one of the world’s largest music cities, with a dense network of record shops, live houses, studios and labels. Different eras and districts are tied to different sounds, from the polished city pop of the 1970s and 1980s to the record-collector culture around Shibuya and a long-running experimental underground. Pop, electronic, ambient, rock and noise scenes overlap here, which makes the city a natural crossing point between artists, genres and decades.

Country

Japan

Connected in IJALA

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Yellow Magic Orchestra · Cornelius · Hiroshi Yoshimura · Midori Takada · Merzbow · Fishmans · Boris · toe · Kikagaku Moyo · Mariya Takeuchi · Tatsuro Yamashita