It may be spring before we can visit Japan – but you can get a taste closer to home Get your culture fix at a host of new exhibitions, hotels, restaurants and design shops Nobu Portman Square, a new hotel from the eponymous brand, has just opened in London Credit: Nobu All eyes are on Japan following the news this week that the country could reopen to tourists as early as spring, ahead of the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics. Until then, there are plenty of ways to get your fix of Japanese culture closer to home. The Pantechnicon (pantechnicon.com), a new emporium of Japanese and Nordic design, food and drink in the heart of Belgravia, opened without due fanfare between lockdowns (and is now open under London’s Tier 2 regulations). Built in 1830 as a craft centre and later used as a furniture storehouse, today only a slither of the original Pantechnicon (pseudo-Greek for “all crafts”) remains behind its column-lined facade.