Perhaps one of the most under-rated Japanese traditional gardens in Tokyo, Kiyosumi Garden is a beauty of a park in Eastern Tokyo. Originally the property of an Edo period merchant family, it became a public park in 1932. Kiyosumi gardens best feature are its plentiful landscape rocks, highly valued in Japanese landscaping. Many of these…
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Arise Coffee
Taiji Hayashi is the master roaster and owner of Arise Coffee in the up-and-coming Tokyo “coffeetown” neighborhood of Kiyosumi Shirakawa in the eastern Tokyo 下町 area. He runs two businesses in the neighborhood, Arise Coffee Roasters, where he roasts and sells beans and personally serves up handpours, and Arise Coffee Entangle, a cafe that serves…
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