Tokyo Recording Studios

City pop was, above all, a studio music, born in the professional recording rooms of Tokyo where lavish budgets bought time, top session players, and meticulous production. Artists like Tatsuro Yamashita and Eiichi Ohtaki treated these rooms as laboratories, layering harmonies and chasing an immaculate sound. More than any club or stage, the recording studio is the genre's true home; this node stands for that shared workplace rather than a single named address.