Tokyo almost always seems to be in a state of flux. Buildings go up and down. Shops regularly change hands. Plus fads are often as fleeting as Japan’s famous cherry blossoms.
And yet the more the city changes, the more it somehow remains the same.
A post-war or post-millennium Japanese bar?
Chris says
Love those kind of places! The grimier the better!
Where is this one?
Lee says
Yes, likewise. Can’t get enough of them.
This particular one is in Shinjuku.
sullivan says
old and new are combined in one city, sometimes they wanna come back to the old things to find memorials
Lee says
Yeah, the past is often comforting.
Martin says
Nice gritty shot. The place and some of the people look like they’ve been there forever. I’ll bet they serve a good drink and edible food.
Lee says
Cheers!
Yes, they really do, don’t they? Men happily lost in time
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Lee says
Definitely!
Hans ter Horst says
I love these ‘showa-era’ style places, I do think they are getting more common but surely nobody would create new ones? Maybe the fashionable, shiny places keep going under and the quality and griminess prevails 🙂
Lee says
Nah, I can’t imagine anyone creating a place like this from scratch. Even if they matched the decor, it’d take a good few years for the grime to build up!
So long as they keep surviving though, that’s the main thing.
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Lee says
Thanks a lot! Very kind of you to say so.