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5 TOURISTY SPOTS FROM ‘DANCE, DANCE, DANCE’ TO TAKE YOUR FRIENDS

Excited about your upcoming trip to Tokyo, but traveling with someone who has never read, or just doesn’t get, Murakami? In that case, it may be hard to justify dragging them out to see an emergency staircase, a children’s playground or an all-male college dormitory. If you find yourself in this situation, you may realize that …

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EIGHT TOKYO BARS AND RESTAURANTS FROM MURAKAMI’S NOVELS

1 Comment / Tokyo / By ken@murakamipilgrimage.com

We know that Haruki Murakami’s characters love going out to fancy French restaurants in Aoyama, hotel bars in Shinjuku and coffee shops in Ginza. Throughout the author’s work, however, surprisingly few specific restaurants or bars are actually named. Fortunately, most of the establishments which have been named in the books are still around in modern-day …

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