Hair places
Cities, streets and sacred sites where hair styles were born, cut and offered. 7 places so far.
East Asia
Barber street or district, JapanGion, KyotoKyoto's geisha district, where maiko wear traditional nihongami of their own hair, changed with the seasons by their kanzashi.Barber street or district, JapanHarajuku, TokyoThe Tokyo street-fashion district of Takeshita Street: hime cuts, twin tails, bright colour and buns.Barber street or district, JapanRyōgoku, TokyoThe sumo district of Tokyo, where wrestlers' oiled topknots are dressed by tokoyama and cut off at retirement.
Middle East
Barber street or district, Israel, 1 hairstyleMea ShearimA Haredi neighbourhood of Jerusalem where payot, hats and the covered hair of married women mark daily life.Barber street or district, TurkeyIstanbul barbersThe barbers' shops of the old city around the Grand Bazaar, heirs to an Ottoman craft of the razor, the hot towel and the turban.