Hi, I'm nagomi 🌸
Welcome to a slow, rainy day in Jimbocho —
Tokyo's "book town,"
where the world's largest cluster of secondhand bookshops
sits quietly beside retro cafés,
curry counters, and the old streets of Kanda.

In this video, we wander 130-year-old bookstores,
sip coffee chosen bean by bean,
ride a Showa-era manual elevator up to a hidden curry shop,
read among 5,000 books in a tiny café,
and walk on through old Kanda and Ochanomizu —
a phantom railway station,
a beautiful arched bridge over the river, and a 1,300-year-old shrine.

It's the quiet, everyday Tokyo that most tourists walk right past.
Come take a slow trip with me. ☔️📚

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🕐 Chapters
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00:42 Suzuran-dori & the bookstores
02:23 Coffee, chosen bean by bean
03:57 Bumpodo, a historic art store
05:29 Into the back alleys
6:21 The bookstores of Yasukuni-dori
08:51  Hinata-ya
12:01 Kitazawa, foreign books since 1902
12:56 Bohemian's Guild & PASSAGE
16:05 Mahumi Coffee
18:34 Manseibashi & the old phantom station
21:45 Ochanomizu & Hijiribashi bridge
23:09 Yushima Seido, a home of learning
24:09 Kanda Myojin

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📍 Places in this video
• Suzuran-dori — the main street of Jimbocho's book town
• Sanseido (1881) & Tokyodo (1890) — landmark bookstores
• Bumpodo — an art-supply store since 1887, maker of Japan's first domestic oil paints
• Yaguchi Shoten (1918) — old books on film & theater
• Isseido (1903) — a renowned antiquarian bookstore
• Sabouru — a beloved retro café since 1955 (its name means "flavor" in Spanish)
• Hinata-ya — a top-100 curry shop, reached by a Showa-era manual elevator
• Kitazawa Bookstore — foreign & rare books since 1902
• Bohemian's Guild — old art & design books, lovely as a gallery
• PASSAGE by ALL REVIEWS — a "shared bookstore" where each shelf has its own owner
• Kenju Shorin — a tiny shop of old film pamphlets
• Mafumi Coffee — a book café with 5,000 books, all free to read
• Manseibashi / mAAch ecute — the site of a 1912 "phantom" station, designed by Kingo Tatsuno (architect of Tokyo Station)
• Hijiribashi & Ochanomizu — a beautiful arched bridge over the man-made Kanda River gorge
• Yushima Seido — a Confucian temple, a birthplace of learning in Japan
• Kanda Myojin — the 1,300-year-old guardian shrine of Edo

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🌏 Here is a map of the places I visited:
Google Map → [ https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q9rfL21BZ5j2z... ]

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