Lose yourself in the neon-tinted maze of Golden Gai, where over 200 micro-bars and decades of bohemian history preserve the raw, rebellious spirit of Tokyo’s creative underground. Today, it remains a rare, ramshackle pocket of “Showa-era” Tokyo, having famously survived the 1980s when local bar owners formed night patrols to defend the land from Yakuza arson attempts.

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