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A Neighborhood I Didn’t Plan to Love

Some places win you over immediately. Others do it quietly, without asking for attention. Yanaka-Ginza was the second kind.

I didn’t arrive there with expectations. It wasn’t high on any list, wasn’t framed as a must-see, wasn’t something I had been imagining before the trip. It was simply a stop along the way, a neighborhood I was passing through rather than aiming for. A tour to get away from Shibuya and the neon-light streets, a change of pace.

And maybe that’s why it stayed with me.

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