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Field Notes on Drinking at a Buddhist Bar

March 26, 2015 1 Comment
Vow's Bar Business Card (front) by Jolyon B. Thomas

Jolyon Baraka Thomas

We are pretty familiar with how Tokyo’s neighborhoods reward the adventurous, so when Three and I met up for drinks in Nakano on an autumn evening in 2012, we struck out for one of the small side streets near the station instead of walking down the larger shopping arcade directly across from the station exit.

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