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Record shops, jazz kissa, live houses and club basements.

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Music & vinyl Shinjuku Shibuya Harajuku Ikebukuro Shimokitazawa Marunouchi Koenji Center GaiGolden GaiIkebukuro West Gate ParkKoenji Awa OdoriKoenji Live HousesShimokitazawa ShelterTokyo International ForumYoyogi Park
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Shibuya

1 places
Street Free

Center Gai

センター街

Center Gai is the pedestrian street that runs from the Scramble Crossing into the heart of Shibuya's youth district, off…

Shinjuku

1 places
Nightlife ¥¥

Golden Gai

ゴールデン街

Golden Gai is six narrow alleys holding around 280 bars, each a single room with a counter and a ladder to a sleeping lo…

Ikebukuro

1 places
Park & garden Free

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

池袋西口公園

A small square outside Ikebukuro Station's west exit that became famous through Ira Ishida's novels and the 2000 televis…

Koenji

2 places
Experience Free

Koenji Awa Odori

東京高円寺阿波おどり

The Koenji Awa Odori is a dance festival imported in 1957 from Tokushima by local shopkeepers hoping to draw crowds to t…
Nightlife ¥¥

Koenji Live Houses

高円寺のライブハウス

Koenji has more than twenty live houses within ten minutes of the station, most of them basements holding 50 to 300 peop…

Shimokitazawa

1 places
Nightlife ¥¥

Shimokitazawa Shelter

下北沢シェルター

Shelter is a 250-capacity basement under a bank, opened in 1991 by the Loft group, and it is the room most Japanese indi…

Marunouchi

1 places
Landmark Free

Tokyo International Forum

東京国際フォーラム

Rafael Viñoly's 1996 convention centre is a glass hall shaped like a ship's hull, 60 metres high and 200 metres long, it…

Harajuku

1 places
Park & garden Free

Yoyogi Park

代々木公園

Yoyogi Park is 54 hectares of lawns, forest and fountains next to Meiji Jingu, on land that was a parade ground, then Am…

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Record shops, jazz kissa and live houses in Tokyo

Shibuya's Udagawacho record street, Disk Union's genre shops, listening cafés where silence is the rule, and the live houses of Shimokitazawa and Koenji.