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Who Is the Tokyo Fixer?
New York magazine
|October 10, 2022
And why does he have a new bar in Manhattan?
ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH Shinji Nohara knows that he is the Tokyo Fixer, a local tour guide of sorts in Japan. In certain circles-chefs, travel journalists-his services, for which he has been known to charge about $800 per day, are indispensable. Nohara is the guy who first showed Bourdain around. He'll get you into the private bar where you need to know someone before you can even be served. He'l
This story is from the October 10, 2022 edition of New York magazine.
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