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Boroichi Flea Market

On location this week from the Boroichi Flea Market in Tokyo. Hear your favorite cheapos scramble around Tokyo’s oldest flea market (dating back hundreds of years!), checking out the broad spectrum of wares and battling off the stall owners tempting them into buying Maneki Neko and the like.

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Boroichi Flea Market

The Market is on the 15th and 16th of December and January every year, find out more about Boroichi market here: December Market, January Market

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