After living here for four years, I think I know Tokyo pretty well. It’s vast, but I try to get around to see it.

Yet when I met my friend MJ for lunch yesterday, it was in a completely new part of town for me. Bakuro-yokoyama is a quiet area with a mix of high-rise office buildings and tiny shops specialising in kimono and traditional Japanese fabrics. It’s not a special or extraordinary neighborhood, which may be why I’d never been there.

The funny thing is, it’s less than fifteen minutes away from my house. So much for knowing Tokyo… Posted by kuri at February 01, 2002 10:35 AM