London has its Bloomsbury, Paris its Montmartre and New York its Greenwich Village.
In Japan’s capital, however, it’s Tabata that is synonymous with the artistic lifestyle — a name that might not possess the same symbolic undertones as its Western counterparts but which, during the Meiji and Taisho eras, was known as “the Montmartre of Japan.”
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