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The First-Timer · Yuki · Tokyo

Yanaka Ginza Shopping Street

Yanaka · Local Life · $

I come here to remember what the city used to feel like. It is the least performative neighborhood left inside the Yamanote Line.

A shitamachi shopping street that survived the war and the bubble. This is Tokyo as it looked in 1970.

— Yuki, The First-Timer
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