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Tokyo’s coolest neighbourhood? There isn’t one
Is Shimokitazawa the coolest neighbourhood? It’s hard to say.
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Tokyo can’t be reduced to a single trendy suburb.
PHOTO: SIMBARASHE CHA/NYTIMES
Gearoid Reidy
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It’s fair to say that Tokyo has some of the world’s hippest neighbourhoods.
But I wasn’t the only one to raise an eyebrow when Time Out magazine declared Jimbocho to be not just the coolest in the Japanese capital, but in the entire world.
