This bar has featured on Tokyo Times before, albeit from a slightly different angle. But whichever way you choose to frame it, the sense of past and present is always a feature.
Tokyo past and present in a tiny bar
The quiet loneliness of a Japanese coastal town
Most of the standard images of Japan are packed, bustling streets, with even busier trains. They are true representations too. At least in regards Tokyo and the country’s other big cities. But escape the concrete metropolises and it’s a very different scene altogether. One made all the more extreme by the ongoing movement away from rural areas, and the rapid ageing of Japan’s population.
Creating places that are quiet.
Often bleak.
And sometimes really quite lonely.
Restaurant smiles and reflections
In Tokyo, just like everywhere else in the world, there’s little that beats the simple pleasure of some good food with friends or family. A feeling that is clearly reflected here.
Tokyo fashion: Complete colour and pattern coordination
For someone who is just about capable of wearing similar socks, this fella’s impeccably matched and colour coordinated outfit was nothing short of a meticulously planned marvel.
Tokyo’s oldest shoemaker?
Or if not the oldest, then perhaps the most old-fashioned?
