Checking out an interesting unique place in Shinjuku at night. It is famous for it’s many ‘hidden’ very small drinking establishments. Right now most of them are closed during the state of emergency inacted in Tokyo, but it presents a perfect opportunity to observe the old Tokyo post-war architecture and see how entire city looked like before the modernization.
Golden Gai means ‘Golden Block’ in Japanese and refers to a block of six narrow alleyways (called Yokocho) in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with around 200 bars, pubs and places to eat packed together to form a legendary nightspot. Golden Gai is especially unique for being relatively untouched by the post-war ‘Japanese economic miracle’ that transformed the rest of Shinjuku into a mass of futuristic buildings. Golden Gai’s colourful history begins in 1945 in the wake of the Second World War when it had a reputation for black market trading and prostitution. In the late 1950s and 1960s, the area’s bars became popular among writers, artists and intellectuals. A famous bar called the Bundan Bar (bar of the literary world) was particularly popular and led to the block being referred to ‘bunkajin no matchi’ or ‘the district of cultivated people’. It was also in this decade that the name ‘Golden Gai’ was commonly used.
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