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Yanaka Ginza
A street worth walking twice · Tokyo, Japan
Photo: Stephen Kelly from San Francisco, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
A 170-metre shopping street of about 60 family-run shops in Yanaka, a low-rise Shitamachi district that largely escaped both the 1923 earthquake and wartime bombing. Greengrocers, butchers, senbei and croquette counters and a handful of craft shops sit under lanterns strung the length of the lane. From the Nippori end, the 'Yuyake Dandan' steps look straight down the street towards the sunset.
The most intact everyday shopping street left in central Tokyo, and it still functions as one.
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