INTOUCH Magazine
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Haute Season
Kaiseki chef Tomoomi Oikawa brings culinary artistry and cultural insights to the Nihonbashi Club this month.
September blooms with the Chrysanthemum Festival. October sprouts with matsutake mushrooms.
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Engaging Interests
Nihonbashi Club Members find common threads and community through lively special interest groups.
As the Nihonbashi Club membership grows, the mix of passions has become as satisfyingly complex as one of the Muromachi Bar’s signature cocktails. Stir in arts, fitness and a dash of history and you have a rich blend of special interest groups (SIGs) that offer something for everyone.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Through innovation and camaraderie, Nihonbashi’s Muromachi Bar is a popular spot for Members from both clubhouses.
“When Members turn the corner and set eyes on it for the first time, they’re immediately struck by the bar’s classic East Coast art deco look and neighborhood feel,” says bartender Dash Mitchell-Moore, standing in the center of the Nihonbashi Club’s iconic Muromachi Bar.
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Our Urban Oasis
As Tokyo American Club Nihonbashi turns two this month, Member Robert Moss shares how the downtown hub has enhanced his life in Tokyo.
I arrived in Tokyo from the United States on a three-year work assignment. That was more than a decade ago.
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Building Bridges
Nihonbashi Club Members’ sense of community doesn’t stop at the doors of the satellite hub.
As a young girl, Kaori Koide dreamed of living in Nihonbashi. Tokyo’s “zero point” and the beating heart of old Edo, Nihonbashi was the starting point for Japan’s five key roads, which funneled people and trade in and out of the future capital.
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Recipe for Success
Diners at the soon-to-open Nihonbashi Club can expect cuisine that wows, heartens and satisfies.
Moving into a new home usually means gulping down local takeout or delivery pizza amid stacks of half-empty boxes.
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Style and Substance
Much more than just frames on the wall, the Nihonbashi Club’s art collection symbolizes everything the facility aspires to be.
When the Club’s Nihonbashi satellite facility opens this spring, it will be more than just a place to eat, drink and exercise. For many Members, it will be a home away from home.
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Finer Details
The Club’s soon-to-open Nihonbashi facility promises to be a welcoming space of exquisite interior design.
Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room,” writes novelist Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows, his landmark treatise on Japanese aesthetics, “I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use of shadow and light.”
