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Tokyo’s Coolest Neighborhood? There Isn’t One
Is Shimokitazawa the coolest neighborhood? It’s hard to say.
Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg
It’s fair to say that Tokyo has some of the world’s hippest neighborhoods.
But I wasn’t the only one to raise an eyebrow when Time Out magazine declared Jimbocho to be not just the coolest in the Japanese capital, but in the entire world.