The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Shinjuku Golden Gai
I'm not a bar culture expert. I come here for the 1946 urban form preserved in wood and corrugated iron.
Six alleyways of postwar wooden bar structures, originally black-market stalls after 1945. The architecture itself is the artifact — 200 buildings that should have burned or been demolished and weren't.
— Hana, The Historian
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