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There isn't much of anything old left in Tokyo, but you can get at least a taste of industrial decades past by visiting a handful of places in Yarakucho that have somehow survived many decades in old-is-not-tolerated Tokyo. The most picturesque of these is probably the drinking place under the tracks - so over-photographed by now that you've probably already seen pictures of it a few dozen times... but... here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqj-zxndeQ After taking those images, I wandered over to nearby Hibiya Park and stumbled into a German Beer Festival, where I talked myself into having sausage and beer. The weather was actually perfect for it - not to be taken for granted here, what the rainy season, cold windy winter, hot & humid summer, etc.
"Hibiya Park German Beer Garden"
Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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