Independent publishing from Tokyo
Table of Contents
An independent Tokyo publication

Shōwa
Guide
Tokyo

An illustrated field guide to the Tokyo that endures.

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Our philosophy

A catalogue of things worth noticing.

Table of Contents is an independent publishing and cultural project based in Tokyo. We create considered books and objects about the people, places and ideas that stay with us.

Our first publication, Shōwa Guide Tokyo, is a love letter to the restaurants, kissaten, bars and neighbourhood institutions that have quietly endured.

Made with curiosity. Collected with care.

The book

For the places
that time forgot.

320 full-colour pages, over 250 places and a city that never stops changing. Shōwa Guide Tokyo is both a guide to exploring and a record of everyday cultural heritage.

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