We’re off to Tokyo next week for Tokyo Designers Week and to get us in the mood, here're popular stories about Japanese architecture and design.  In first place is a house in Nakana, Tokyo, built at 63.02° to the road (above) and designed by Schemata Architecture Office.

2. A tea house made out of paper and cardboard, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.

3. Images from ©MURAKAMI, a retrospective exhibition of work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles last year.

4. Hono light by Japanese brand Metaphys, seen at Tokyo Designers Week 2007, which is “ignited” by touching it with a magnetic match and extinguished by blowing on it.

5. Tama Art University Library in Tokyo by Toyo Ito.

6. Parabola House, a family home in Tokyo designed by Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Tekuto.

7. NE apartments, a block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo designed by Japanese architects Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno.

8. New buildings at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany by Japanese architects SANAA.

9. A hillside studio-house in Ushimado, Japan, by Tezuka Architects.

10. Kuro - a house in Fukui city, Japan, by architect Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.