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    Keywords: Culture & History, Book

Places to visit when in Japan, related to Go. Shopping, bookstores, clubs, restaurants, historical places, events, cemeteries, shrines, etc.

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In Tokyo, the Asahiya Shoten bookshop in Jimbocho is the specialist second-hand store. Charles Matthews


Tristan Jones If you can, do try and visit the Nihon Ki-in's main office. You need to get off at the Ichigaya subway stop and find your way from there (it's not far and the Nihon Ki-in have a map, albeit an upside-down one, on their website). You will find lots of gobans and stones on display, plus photos from historic matches at which these pieces of equipment were used. If you're nice, somebody will probably show the famous "Yugen no ma" or "Room of Profound Darkness", the press room and the the inseis' playing rooms -- all uncannily accurately reproduced in Hikaru no Go. The Nihon Ki-in also runs a very big playing salon for the public. They will fix you up with appropriate opponents and everyone is very kind. Finally, if you can't get along to the Nihon Ki-in, but feel the urge to play, you can find dozens of go clubs, large and small, listed in the English language edition of the Tokyo phone book.


kokiri One of the subtemples in the Daitokuji complex in Kyoto had a go board on display upon which two famous generals were reputed to have played. IIRC they played each other at Go before meeting on opposing sides of the battlefield but, since I can't even remember their names, I'm probably mistaken; perhaps someone can correct me. Anyway, it's not exactly must-see, but a bit of go history in a pleasant setting nevertheless.



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