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A Fashion Designer’s Complete Travel Guide to Tokyo

Welcome to Locals Only. In this series, we’re tapping notable locals in the style space to share a tight list of their top recommendations of what to see, eat, and shop in their home city. They’ll share off-the-radar recs that you won’t find in your average guidebook, resulting in digestible mini guides revealing where the city’s most fashionable residents are actually hanging out.

Poppy Lissiman certainly knows how to design a mean pair of sunglassesJustin Bieber and Bella Hadid are fans—but this story isn’t about her quirky, colorful, cool accessories. Instead, I’m highlighting her top travel recommendations for her adopted city of Tokyo. As it turns out, she’s a treasure trove of information when it comes to the Japanese capital’s best restaurants, shops, activities, museums, hotels, cafés, bookstores, and more.