{"id":207599,"date":"2025-10-17T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:35:08","slug":"what-does-jimbocho-think-of-its-unexpected-cool-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207599\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Jimbocho think of its unexpected \u2018cool\u2019 status?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for its secondhand bookstores and curry shops, Jimbocho hasn\u2019t traditionally topped tourists\u2019 lists \u2014 but that could soon change. Time Out magazine recently declared the area the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/tokyo\/news\/its-official-jimbocho-is-the-worlds-coolest-neighbourhood-in-2025-092425\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s coolest neighborhood<\/a>\u201d \u2014 much to the surprise of Tokyoites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m very happy, but it was unexpected,\u201d says Michiaki Kamoshida, a bookseller at Honmaru, a shared bookstore where individuals or corporations rent a bookshelf and curate their own collection. \u201cBooks aren&#8217;t really getting that much attention these days, even globally. Especially in Japan, the publishing industry isn&#8217;t doing that well. So I was very surprised to see this book town getting attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is not alone in his bemusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for its secondhand bookstores and curry shops, Jimbocho hasn\u2019t traditionally topped tourists\u2019 lists \u2014 but that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,10958,89372,96,89373,29129,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-bookstores","10":"tag-chiyoda-ward","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jimbocho","13":"tag-tokyo","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}