Hon no Machi — Jimbocho Book Town Guide
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All English articles from Hon no Machi, grouped by series. For an overview of each series, see Series.
Photographer ELLI’s Town Walks
- Early-Summer Daytime Drinks at Luncheon, a Jimbocho Beer Hall Founded in 1909
- The Adirondack Café, a Jimbocho Jazz Spot: New York Records and Live Music Tuesday and Wednesday Nights
- Hasebe, a Jimbocho Set-Meal Restaurant: Bluefin Tuna from Toyosu Every Morning and Lunch Worth the Line
- Toyodaen and Daisen in Kanda-Sarugakucho: A Third-Generation Tea Shop and the Son’s Soba Restaurant
- @Wonder JG in Jimbocho: A Former Pachinko Parlor Turned Library-Sized Used Bookstore
- Book House Cafe in Jimbocho: A Children’s Bookstore with Picture Books, a Café and a Hideaway Bar
- Kissa Hotaka, Ochanomizu: A 70-Year-Old Mountain-Lodge Coffee House and Its Owner’s Edo Heritage
- Mamekobo, Jimbocho: The House-Roasting Coffee Maker Who Roasts Nearly a Ton a Month
- Banuken, Jimbocho: Inkstones, Antiques and a 50-Year Love Affair with Duanxi Stone
- Asanoya, Kanda-Sarugakucho: A 100-Year-Old Soba Shop Run by Its Third and Fourth Generations
- Yamagataya Paper Shop, Jimbocho: A Washi Specialist Since 1879 and Its Manager Yuko Taki
- Kissa Poupée, Kanda-Nishikicho: A 56-Year-Old Coffee House Welcomed by French Dolls, and Its Special Curry
- Ochanomizu Hotel Shoryukan, Where Osamu Tezuka Once Stayed, and Its Famous Red Chicken Curry
- Kanda Awahei: The Kanda Senbei Shop That Coined “Gekikara” (Fiery Hot) and Its Sixth Generation
- Daiki Shoe Store, Kanda: A Nearly 75-Year-Old Shoe Shop on How to Choose Shoes That Fit
- Sakaiya Sports, Jimbocho: A Specialty Store for Mountaineering and Climbing Gear
- Listening to a Hand-Cranked Gramophone at Fuji Record Sha, Jimbocho’s Nearly 100-Year-Old Used-Record Shop
Jimbocho and Me
- Interviewing at Isseido Bookstore in a School Uniform: An Antiquarian Bookseller’s 52 Years in Jimbocho
- Hunting Through a Thousand Old Books with Just a List: An Isseido Newcomer at the Book Auctions, and on to the Jimbocho Oden Shop A-One
- What Came Out When He Ordered “Yakitori for Two”: The Night a Jimbocho Oden Shop, A-One, Changed My Values
My Apprenticeship in Old Books
- Why Visit a Foreign Bookstore When You Can Buy Books Online? Inuhiko Yomota on Kitazawa Bookstore in Jimbocho
- “Not Worthy to Tie Their Shoelaces”: Inuhiko Yomota Meets His Younger Self on a Secondhand Bookshop Shelf
Book Lovers of the Old-Book District
- The Man Called “Fukuda the Exhaustive Searcher”: The Legend of Book Lover Kugao Fukuda of Kanda’s Old-Book District
- “I Read Catalogs Across, Not Down”: A Gakushuin Professor Emeritus and His Book-Hunting Method in Kanda
The People Who Weave Book Town
- A Bookstore Is a Door to the World: Sanseido Bookstore President Takao Kamei on a “Fresh Start at 70 Percent” in Jimbocho
- The Future of Bookstores Lies in “Multiplication”: Sanseido President Takao Kamei on Building the New Jimbocho Main Store with His Staff
- “A Bookstore Is the Town’s Entrance”: Sanseido President Takao Kamei on the New Kanda-Jimbocho Main Store
Engraved Memories
From the Study of an International History Detective
A Mini Theater with a Café and Bookshelves
Curtain Calls in Full Bloom
Notebook of Sounds
My Golden Age of Cinema
- Rocky at an All-Night Screening: A Film Lover’s Golden Age, from Oita to Jimbocho
- House (1977): Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Startling Debut Feature
Living in Book Town
- A Yukio Mishima Manuscript for Two-Thirds of a Bonus: At the Glass Case of Komiyama Shoten, Jimbocho