Pure TokyoScope Podcast 150: Live from Jimbocho, The Coolest Neighborhood in the World!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) celebrate 150 episodes of podcasting with a visit to Jimbocho, recently voted The World’s Coolest Neighborhood by Time Out.
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SHOW NOTES
It’s official: Jimbocho is the world’s coolest neighbourhood in 2025
Inside the World’s Coolest Neighborhood
Jimbocho Theater
Shosen Grande
G-Man 75 Opening (starring Tetsuro Tamba)
Hara Shobo
The 300 million yen robbery (1968)
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