Disco

The majority of what passes for nail art in Tokyo starts to seem very wan indeed after you've encountered the work of Nagisa Kaneko. The owner of Disco nail salon acts like a graffiti artist working in miniature, using gels to create detailed illustrations and more abstract designs, where the only limit seems to be her imagination and her customer's budget (an hour session costs a cool ¥9,450). Disco opened in May 2012 and has been doing strong business ever since; book ahead, in other words.