I’ll be updating the Shrine Sale tab on the blog, but I wanted to catch all my readers and let them know that the Oedo Antique Market held on the grounds of the International Forum will be on hiatus due to renovations through February of 2012. The first market next year is expected to be held on Sunday, March 4, 2012. I’ll keep you up to date on the situation as it unfolds.
Other news includes the annual sale at Kanarusha, a fantastic Japanese antique store out near The American School in Japan. More information can be found here, in a previous post, and here, on their website. If you liked my last post on tansu, now might be the time to get one!
Every other Sunday will just not be the same for those of you who frequent Oedo! It was my most looked forward to shrine sale in Tokyo, I loved the atmosphere there and the vendors were always so nice. There was one special man who, at the first sale after the earthquake, gave me special disaster discounts and bowed profusely thanking me for coming back to the market, he wasn’t the only one, that day was so very humbling. My 15 year old daughter came with me on that occasion (shrine sales are just not her thing!) and even she had a tear in her eye when we left. Are the renos due to the EQ Jacqueline, I can’t imagine what renovations they need to do there?
I am not sure about what renovations are being done, after all, it is such a modern well kept space. I’ll let you know if I figure it out… But it seems to me there was no Oedo without you….revenues had plummeted!
I wasn’t so bad you know, but I never ever came away from there without something, I miss those shrine sales so much, but yesterday I headed to Kloosterstraat (antique street) yesterday but was disappointed as the stores didn’t open until 1.00 or 2.00 p.m., can you believe it? Obviously they make a huge mark up on their sales to open so late in the day as they then close at 6.00! I think I will be browsing there again tomorrow 🙂
any news on whether the oedo antique market will start back up this sunday?
I am assuming it will. Are you planning on checking it out?