Shinjuku district - Japan

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23 rd December 2020

Tokyo

A visit to the Shinjuku district was our tour at 9.30am this morning U.K. time.

The area is the home of the famous night district in Japan best known as the best entertainments districts in the city where visitors can play, eat and shop till very late at night.

Our guide, Yusuke, took us on a walk through the nostalgic Izakaya alley, full of a variety of restaurants, bars and clubs and the famous Robot Restaurant!

I was reminded of my many visits to South Korea during my working career when eating Korean BBQ was a treat.

There didn’t seem to be any specific Christmas lights but the many buildings with their neon lights still looked pretty.

We passed along a wall covered in murals created by children commemorating the Fukushima disaster.

Several times through the tour Yusuke would mention there were not many people about but it certainly looked busy but I guess the streets of Tokyo are always so much more crowded.

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