Tokyo’s most famous fashion school, Bunka is where some of the city’s most radical designers were shaped before going on to define runways globally. The campus itself is a strange mix of clinical classrooms and experimental style spilling out onto Shinjuku sidewalks, with graduates and current students in fits that often feel a season ahead of the industry.
While it’s obviously not a tourist attraction in the usual sense, if you’re chasing fashion inspiration or even thinking about where to study, Bunka is the spot – and the starting line for so much of what ends up on Tokyo’s streets.
AloJapan.com