大新料理店

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Hemmed in by Western-style buildings is a two-story Japanese-style restaurant topped with a triangular gable. A row of latticed windows runs across the second floor, and on the ground floor a large eave reaches out over the street. A low fence stretches in front of the entrance, and on the building next door to the left, a round shape like a clock or a sign can be seen.

This Japanese restaurant appears sixth in the book. The text with the photo opens by saying that, perhaps in rivalry with the cafés competing to take up new styles from Europe and America, Japanese restaurants tend to favor the Japanese style. Still, it goes on, hanging lanterns and noren curtains in modern Ginza has a fresh feel of its own.

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