Tokyo snapshot: Gate to Kanda shopping street

Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2015, shows a gate to the Kanda Suzuran-dori shopping street in downtown Tokyo near the Jinbocho area famed for the presence of numerous secondhand bookstores. A quiet alley near the street is dotted with long-established coffee shops exuding a nostalgic atmosphere of the Showa era (1926-1989). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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