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Tokyo Cafes: Yanaka Coffee
Yanaka Coffee is one of those little stalls you’d usually miss. It’s the one or two people sitting on a bench that catches your eye. The languid, contented people-watcher is a permanent fixture for this coffee stall. This roaster has over 15 options in its shelves. Most of them are light roasts, and sourced […]
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Tokyo Cafes: Macchinesti Coffee
From the outside, the year-round Christmas lights and neon coffee sign, Macchinesti Coffee looks like an over-zealous suburban transplant in sophisticated Tokyo. Nonetheless, to the discerning coffee drinker, the red sign clearly says ‘Chemex’, indicating a refined brewing sentiment. The interior comes as a bit of a surprise. Even though it’s an open space with a […]
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Accessible Tokyo Map Guide: Go Anywhere With Your Phone
This post has been moved to this new location because this blog will be deleted by December 2020: https://shenchingtou.github.io/maps/accessible-tokyo/ The wheelchair accessible map remains available. You can save it to your phone. This post was originally created in 2016 to help travellers navigate Tokyo’s complex subway system. While Tokyo’s system is a bit complicated, most […]
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Accessible Tokyo: A Brief Guide
General Things Tokyo’s an incredible, and potentially overwhelming, city that should be experienced first hand. As officially the most populous city in the world, it is incredibly complex. It has over 225 stations in its 23 Wards and over a million people in transit every day. Still, the city is more accessible than it seems. […]
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Tokyo Sweets: Goma Daifuku at Futaba
Daifuku is one of those big, chewy, sweet red-bean balls of goodness that you can get from every convenience store up to the poshest department stores in the country. In between, you have the old establishments that pass on their family secrets through generations, more focused on getting their sweets right every single day than […]
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Tokyo Cafes: Arise Coffee Entangle
On a sunny weekend, youll spy a small crowd hovering outside a white-box house across from the Kiyosumi Park and Fukagawa Library. It might be full even if the weather isn’t cooperating! You’re looking at ARiSE Entangle, the younger sibling to the first ARiSE just down a few blocks, which set up shop in Kiyosumi […]
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Muslim Friendly Tokyo: Mosques, Restaurants, and more!
**Note: This post will be deleted by the December, 2020. You can still access the Google Map below if you save it to your account. Please save the new location for this post for future reference: https://shenchingtou.github.io/maps/muslim-friendly-tokyo/**
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14 Quintessential Bookshops in Tokyo’s Booktown, Jimbocho
Whether you’re looking for pulp fiction and manga, or antique collectibles, you’ll find them in Jimbocho’s 180+ bookstores, some over 100 years old!
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Tokyo’s Local Coffee Walking Guide: Kiyosumishirakawa and Fukagawa
In Tokyo for a few days and want to sample a few great coffee establishments? You could squeeze in a good cup at one of the indie joints at Shibuya, Harajuku, or Shinjuku, filled with locals and tourist crowds alike. Or, you could get your caffine fix while experiencing the real local Tokyo, with its quaint local neighbourhoods, impressive temples, […]
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