
Tokyo’s Top Traditional Tea Houses
A taste of traditional Japan.
Iidabashi is really just a relatively big station on the JR Chuo Line surrounded by wide roads and lots of more interesting neighbourhoods – like Kagurazaka.
A taste of traditional Japan.
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