Experts Explain Tokyo’s Famous Jimbocho Book Town; Lecture Series, Walking Tours Celebrate Print Culture

By Ikuko Kitagawa / Japan News Staff Writer
16:32 JST,
October 8, 2024
About a kilometer north of the Imperial Palace lies a district called Jimbocho, home to what is said to be one of the world’s largest concentrations of used bookstores. More than 100 bookstores, many of them specializing in various genres, are crowded together along bustling Yasukuni-dori avenue in ...
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