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Shibuya Stream to Daikanyama: The New Riverside Walk Locals Love
For decades the Shibuya River south of the station ran hidden under concrete and neglect — a drainage…
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Omoide Yokocho (‘Memory Lane’): Eating Yakitori in Shinjuku’s Tiny Alley
Omoide Yokocho — “Memory Lane,” though everyone also knows its ruder postwar nickname — is a pair of…
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Golden Gai: How to Actually Drink in Shinjuku’s 200-Bar Maze
Golden Gai is a preserved scrap of postwar Shinjuku: six pedestrian alleys holding roughly 280 bars, most seating…
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Shinjuku Kabukicho at Night: A Foreigner’s Safety Guide
Kabukicho, the neon maze northeast of Shinjuku Station, is routinely called Japan’s largest entertainment district and just as…
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Omotesando at Dawn: What Tokyo’s Most Beautiful Avenue Looks Like at 6am
Omotesando at midday is a procession — flagship stores, tour groups, influencers arranging themselves against Herzog & de…
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Jiyugaoka: European Sweets, Mont Blanc Cakes & the Streets of ‘Little Europe’
Jiyugaoka — “the hill of freedom” — is southwest Tokyo’s pastry capital: a low-rise grid of plane-tree streets…
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Todoroki Valley (等々力渓谷): Tokyo’s Unexpected Forest Walk Inside the City
Todoroki Valley is the sentence that sounds false until you stand in it: a genuine forested ravine, roughly…
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Koganei & Musashino: Walking the Banks of the Tamagawa Josui Aqueduct
The Tamagawa Josui is a 43-kilometer canal dug in 1653 to carry drinking water from the Tama River…
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Nishi-Ogikubo: Antiques, Curry & Quiet Streets — Tokyo’s Best-Kept Secret
Nishi-Ogikubo — “Nishiogi” — is the Chuo Line stop that even many Tokyoites skip, sandwiched between famous Kichijoji…
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