Dispatch from Tokyo: A Retail Roadmap

TOKYO — Tokyo has long been my favourite retail destination on the planet. With the world’s most sophisticated consumers, a vast array of retail options specialised down to the most specific and minute genres imaginable, as well as an obsessive focus on product quality and service excellence, there’s nowhere else I’d rather shop.

The Japanese don’t do a great job of promoting Tokyo’s vibrant retail landscape, however. Seoul has…