Japan's National Tourism Organization JNTO has confirmed the number of foreign visitors bounced back April to 67 percent of same month in 2019, with a little help from this year’s cherry blossom. Former volleyball player Tadayoshi Yokota who won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics passed away earlier this month. In Hiroshima, security has ramped up in readiness of today’s G7 summit following several high profile attacks on current and former Japanese Prime Ministers. And from Electric Town in Akihabara we drop by the
Intermediatheque museum near Tokyo Station to see their current exhibition,
Tokyo Ephemera, before heading towards Aoyama to see
Terry Winters: IMAGESPACE an exhibition by the American painter at
Fergus McCaffrey. We end our trip across town at the edge of Kabukicho, another Electric Town but one, a short walk from Shinjuku Station.
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