TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS

Going Bananas in a Mellow Tone

TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS

Show Notes

We go bananas before a bowl of lemon (yes, lemon) ramen and making it at last to two deeply different old school joints in Nagasaki. Some top Japan travel hacks, and James finally reveals at last that he's a 'two t-shirt a day' man.

Thanks as ever to Brian of Grooves Ahead for assistance with sound.

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