[HN Gopher] A visual chronicle of Tokyo's disappearing jazz bars... ___________________________________________________________________ A visual chronicle of Tokyo's disappearing jazz bars (2016) Author : benbreen Score : 20 points Date : 2020-06-28 03:55 UTC (19 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thevinylfactory.com) (TXT) w3m dump (thevinylfactory.com) | pugworthy wrote: | If you know Golden Guy (Burning Man camp), this seems straight up | the kind of thing that should be there. (I already posted it to | the Golden Guy FB group). | | And yea it's a takeoff on Golden Gai. | supernova87a wrote: | I would love to visit some of these if travel ever becomes | possible again... Although, you know it always seems a little | intimidating to wander as a stranger into a very specialized, | private bar or restaurant in Japan, and if not speaking Japanese | (but that's a different topic). | | I came across an episode of "Japanology" on Youtube about cafes | (which is a surprisingly interesting series produced by NHK -- | each episode has a generally heart-warming or touching twist to | the general theme it covers). And the ending is exactly about a | jazz cafe that closed but was brought back for 2 weeks by its | loyal fans some years later. I imagine some of the ones described | here are in the same boat. | | https://youtu.be/UF0dnPwqXqY?t=1326 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-28 23:00 UTC)