Orange house in Taito-ku, Tokyo (Japan)

Talk to a Tokyoite about “downtown” (下町 shitamachi), and he will think of the Taito district: the train station of Ueno, where migrants from the deep north first arrived in their search for a better life, and the temples of Asakusa, once a boomtown full of prostitutes and gangsters but now long since past its prime. Stuck in a low-rent p.... (more)

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