tokyo spots
magpie
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going to tokyo next month for 5 days during Obon...staying in asukasa near Ueno station...plaese to hip me to some record spots, good eats, and outdoor shopping...thanks 
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Go to Savage! And Still Diggin' records. Say what's up to the hommies Muro and Viblam. Hit every Disk Union location you can find.
What do you want to eat? 5 days is not a lot of time due to the HUGE amount of great restaurants in Tokyo.
You need to talk to Sheep about the record spots. That foll knows the deal with Tokyo record stores.
Do what chan said Shibuya -- disk union, savage!, still diggin' and hit up Spice Records too..
If you have time, I'll give you some areas to hit. Hit me on the PM.
peace.
exit at the Hachiko exit
walk in between the HMV signs.
the area there is where all the stores are at. keep your eyes peeled.
the 4 blocks vertical and horizontal and all the alleys, there are literally 100s of stores. you can't miss it.
if worse comes to worse, just walk up to someone with a record bag and say "recordo wa doko desuka?"
peace.
http://city.superfuture.com/city/area/area.cfm?area=4&city=1
cluster of baby blue "M" signs, stores are all there. A lot of the big chains will have multiple locations (different genres), especially Cisco.
here are some directions to get to disk union, manhattan records + my hommies shop -- STILL DIGGIN'. if you go to still diggin', tell VIBLAM aka SHINGO that DJ Sheep said what's up --
so get out the "hachiko" exit on the JR line, walk between the screens and go past HMV, take your first right after that, then your first left... walk down the street, you will see DISK UNION (downstairs is jazz/rare groove, upstairs is hip-hop) -- across from Disk union will be the koban (police box), follow the street up the right of the Koban, you will see Tokyu Hands on your right, and DMR records on your left... keep walking.... a little down you will see the big blue MANHATTAN RECORDS store on your right (blue sign)... to the left of manhattan records there is an alley, walk down it and up the rusty stair case on the right till u reach STILL DIGGIN' on the 2nd or 3rd floor...
peace.
Holy shit man, you are too good.
"there is an alley, walk down it and up the rusty stair case on the right till u reach STILL DIGGIN' on the 2nd or 3rd floor..."
DAMN!
peace, stein. . .
DAMN! Sounds Of Blackness had the MAD selection of shit... always pretty decent prices too. Were they having a sale Stein?? I might have to fly out there and fill my entire wants lists!
If you wanna find "Sounds Of Blackness" just look for Wendy's burger joint in Shibuya, it's towards the end of that area I mentioned. SAVAGE (muro's store) and S.O.B -- to get there. walk inside wednys then walk out of wendy's, turn left, take your first right into the first street (family mart is on the corner). There is a BLACK FLYS store on your right, right next to that on the left is a stair case up to a building. Savage on 1F. S.O.B. on 2F.
peace.
SHIT! I just realized my directions were a little off, i said left when I meant right.... lol. I just edited it...
rusty staircases always guarantee that rill shit on the shelves son!!
peace.
peace, stein. . .
For good eatings you have to check out Ichiran ramen (Map to the Shibuya shop). Best ramen in town hands down IMO. Suggest printing out the page with the map and ask someone for directions when you're close to Shibuya station since it's in Japanese.
Then checking out a ninja themed restaurant wouldn't be out of order if you're willing to splurge a little ($60~). (Ninja Akasaka website). This place is crazy. Me and my friend went there and it was a blast. The decor is mad (like a village built into a cave) and all the waitors wear ninja outfits and greet you ninja-style and shit. It sounds a little corny but the food there is so amazing I haven't had anything like it. A must.
The recommendations so far are perfect if you are there for a couple of days only.
However, I highly recommend to check out other parts than Shibuya (although Shibuya is straight
I think I did not miss many record stores in the Tokyo area and all the Disk Union stores scattered in the city are still my favourite places. They are simply
For other stuff I recommend the Ghibli/Hayao Miazaki mueseum. Afterwards it would be easy to go to Kichijoji, where you can dig records and finally grab the best yakitori around at the open air joint close to the park.
peace.
I'll be in Tokyo in early September and I'm already fiending to get into these stores -- I've heard many good things about Tokyo so I can't wait to get over there and start bugging out like the baka gaijin I am.
Thanks for the tipoffs hommies...
sounds great. I don??t remember something like this, so maybe I missed it. What is the exact location/station?
jazzy sport (www.jazzysport.com)
#401,12-7Udagawacho Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan 150-0042
tel:+81.[0]3.5456.3777
This is not the best digging spot for raers, but it??s a nice shop, a great label IMO, located in the Shibuya area and - perhaps most important - dudes there are extremely friendly, helpful + fluent in English.
that's one spot i ain't droppin'... but if you pay attention, you can find it easy enough, the info is published if you get my drift. that shop single handedly shits on any record store from here to kyoto in a heartbeat. last time i walked in there, they had the entire sonoton record library for 100 yen a pop + numerous copies of every italian soundtrack i was after... but they didn't have get carter this time
peace.
Well, this one seems to be a
Sushi Dai
Sushi Daiwa
lineups start at 6am, and they're only open until 2pm. Both are found in section 6 of the market.
For ramen I would have to recommend you reference this list.
copy of stark reality for $1400. prices are all over the place in japan.
peace, stein. . .