Proprietor Nobuo Miyamae says he needed Little Soul Cafe to offer a group area for music fanatics in Tokyo.
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Proprietor Nobuo Miyamae says he needed Little Soul Cafe to offer a group area for music fanatics in Tokyo.
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Image this: You are at a busy bar when the whisper of a music comes trickling out of some busted speaker; you wish to reserve it for future listening, however Shazam-ing it’s pointless as a result of it is simply too darn loud.
Nicely, that is not an issue for the patrons of the Little Soul Cafe in Tokyo, as a result of music is the main focus right here. As a part of our Sense of Place: Japan sequence, we stepped inside this listening bar with an impeccable aura.
Little Soul Cafe is positioned in Shimokitazawa, a Tokyo neighborhood filled with classic outlets, bars and dwell music.
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There’s smooth amber mild, a top-notch sound system and partitions lined with greater than 14,000 vinyl data. The gathering belongs to bar proprietor Nobuo Miyamae, who takes the music curation very severely.
“If some prospects wish to take heed to some tunes, generally I settle for that request and play that,” he says. “However usually, what I put an significance on is the ambiance of this area.”
On this session, Miya talks about how Little Soul received its begin and the way the bar has impressed different fanatics to start out their very own hi-fi listening areas.
Many because of interpreter Konomu Suido for serving to with this Sense of Place story. And ensure to stay round — we have extra adventures from Japan on the way in which.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.