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Tokyo Jazz: Shibusashirazu Orchestra at ShinJuku Pit Inn

Leave a Comment / Japan, music / 10/12/2012

My guidebook describes the typical Tokyo jazz club program as ‘geriatric’. Not a comment on the music which can be as exciting and high quality as in any in the US or Europe, but rather on the hours they keep. This suits me just fine! With a sleep deficit and a slight fear of the […]

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Fish for ever! Tsukiji market.

Leave a Comment / food, Japan / 10/12/2012

Imagine a market. Not with one or two fish stalls, but one completely dedicated to fish. Walk through it to reach another the same. And then another. And then another. And yet more. At Tsukiji the fish seems to go on forever! Business starts early with auctions mostly of tuna – the record price this

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