VOLUME 13
TOKYO
Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo Skytree & Shibuya Crossing
Tokyo is not its skyline. The Skytree and Tokyo Tower belong on postcards, but the city people actually live in is a low-rise mosaic of wards, each one carrying on as if the others were distant suburbs. Step a single block off any wide avenue and the scale collapses. Telephone poles strung with overhead wires. Rooftop water tanks squatting on three-story buildings. A koban with its red lamp lit at the corner. Vending machines glowing into a back lane, humming through the night. The neighbourhoods do not match. Yanaka keeps its cemetery stones, its stray cats, its persimmon branches leaning over old roof tiles. Shimokitazawa runs on second-hand racks and narrow alleys. Koenji belongs to record crates and basement bars. Kagurazaka holds onto its cobbled slope; Tsukudajima still looks like a fishing settlement caught between condominium towers. Akihabara stacks its vertical signage straight up. Asakusa keeps the red chochin of Kaminarimon swinging where it has hung for generations. Forty pages here, drawn at street level. The dawn auction floor at Toyosu. A bowl of edomae sushi pressed at a seven-seat counter. The bronze head of Hachiko, polished by palms. Begin anywhere. The trains will keep running overhead.
“Begin anywhere. The trains will keep running overhead.”
- 40 original Tokyo Prefecture illustrations
- Single-sided pages to prevent bleed-through
- 8.5 x 8.5 inch square format
- A mix of detailed and breathable compositions
- Brief editorial introduction to Tokyo
- Anyone with an interest in Japan, its culture, and the everyday life of its capital
- Adults who use coloring for relaxation and quiet focus
- A considered gift for friends and family with a love of Japan
The Tokyo coloring book is Volume 13 of Sora Mikami's Prefectures of Japan series, a 47-volume collection that explores Japan one prefecture at a time. It gathers 40 original black-line illustrations of Tokyo. It draws on Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo Skytree, and Shibuya Crossing, alongside the everyday scenes Tokyo considers its own.
You will find Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo Skytree, and Shibuya Crossing, together with the landmarks, food, and quiet corners that give Tokyo its character. The compositions move between detailed, intricate pages and calmer, more breathable ones, so there is something for every mood.
Yes. The book mixes detailed illustrations with more open, breathable designs, so beginners and experienced colorists alike can settle in. The large 8.5 x 8.5 inch square pages give you plenty of room to work, and every page is printed single-sided.
Colored pencils, markers, and gel pens all work beautifully. Because every illustration is printed single-sided on white paper, you can use heavier media without bleed-through onto another design. Slip a sheet of card behind the page if you want to be sure.
It is Volume 13 of a planned 47, one book for every Japanese prefecture. The volumes can be coloured in any order, and together they sketch the whole country one place at a time. Tokyo sits in the Kanto region of Japan.
