Japan for Retro & Showa Nostalgia Travelers

About this book

Two hundred journeys into the Japan of the Showa years (1926–1989): shopping streets and yokocho lanes, Showa museums and memory houses, nostalgic stations and tram towns, old cinemas, dagashi-ya penny-candy pilgrimages, kissaten coffee crawls, sento evenings and vending corners, and whole towns that kept the era entire. Each journey is shaped as a day a traveller can actually take — its shape, its memory, its season, and how to plan it — and every entry closes by naming the official source that confirms what is current, so nothing in the book expires. Written and created in Japan.