basecamp / a welcoming
November 13, WPÜ SHINJUKU
basecamp / a welcoming
A Tokyo Salone gathering at WPÜ SHINJUKU
Arrive.
Find your people.
Begin together.
Before Tokyo Salone opens into a week of conversation, inquiry, and shared experience, we gather at basecamp.
For one evening, the creative communities around semi permanent, WPÜ, and Ü Culture come together with the friends, partners, and curators shaping Tokyo Salone and its constellations.
Meet the people building the rooms. Find familiar faces. Make new connections. Begin conversations that may become friendships, collaborations, or something none of us could have planned.
As the year begins to draw to a close, the constellation comes into focus.
Vibes. Connections. A first table.
The week begins here.
Attendance
Complimentary, with registration.
This welcoming is created for the semi permanent, WPÜ, and Ü Culture communities, together with friends joining us from Tokyo and beyond.
Space is limited.
A place around the hearth has been set aside for you.
Evening details
Doors open and gathering
November 13 at 18:30–22:00
Our languages
The evening will unfold in English and Japanese.
Drinks
Drinks will be available to purchase from the bar throughout the evening
Around the table
For its first gathering in Japan, Copenhagen-born Eat Wasted joins the WPÜ café team to serve collaborative bites created for the evening.
Eat Wasted began around a shared dinner table, turning rescued bread into pasta as a way to bring people together.
What began as one table became many.
At basecamp, that table reaches Tokyo for the first time.
Rescued bread.
Shared plates.
New possibilities.
Something worth gathering around.
Gathering alongside
basecamp / a welcoming brings together friends and communities connected through yes,, teenage engineering, WPÜ, KCRW, Weber Workshops, Massif Tokyo, Mezzanine Makers, Kammui, Mill Pepper Co., COPIC, DIALOG NOTEBOOK, a space, in between., divka, Media Integration, ACTUS, Toho Leo, and Soho House Tokyo.
Each contributes a different practice, perspective, and community to the wider Tokyo Salone constellation.
It is time spent together.
A new introduction.
A conversation allowed to find its own direction.
Venue
WPÜ SHINJUKU
WPÜ SHINJUKU is a boutique hotel and cultural hub in the heart of Shinjuku, where people from different places and practices cross paths.
Across its lounge, gallery, café, gathering spaces, and Room 303 Radio, WPÜ offers more than somewhere to stay. It creates ways to encounter the culture and creative energy of Tokyo.
Throughout Tokyo Salone, WPÜ becomes our everyday living room.
Drop in. Meet someone new. Stay a little longer.
Some of the best conversations begin here.
Not simply a hotel.
A place to arrive.
Explore the constellation
Tokyo Salone, Nourish, Speculative Futures
Intentionally limited.
A place in the room has been held for you.
We’ll meet you in Tokyo.
Constellation
semi permanent presents, Tokyo Salone and its constellations, creating a shared rooms for dialogue across disciplines.
The series brings artists, designers, technologists, chefs, and future generations together to exchange ideas, build relationships, and shape what comes next through conversation, community, and care.
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Partnering with Tokyo Salone
Tokyo Salone is built for the long term. Rather than sponsoring a single event, our partners become part of an evolving cultural institution connecting global creative communities with Japan.