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Apr 03 2009 1 Comment

Golden Gai’s daytime downtime

After dark, the densely packed drinking dens of Shinjuku’s Golden Gai district may well be be the time-honoured haunt of Tokyo’s artistic types, but by day, it’s a decidedly different story, with the narrow streets only sparsely populated by the odd person washing,

Golden Gai

walking through,

Golden Gai

and even working.

Golden Gai

Whoever they happen to be.

Categorized: Food and Drink, Photography

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  1. Dave says

    4/3/2009 at 10:35 pm

    A lot of the people you see in Golden Gai during the day, attending to daily life occupations such as above, usually live there. Most of the bar owners also live there, on the second floor or even a tiny-ass third-floor mezzanine above their bar…

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