Thank you for the music: Here's to the 'cheap, embarrassing' 1980s

?It?s easier to say this is a 1980s bar, but actually we
focus on the fifth decade of the Showa era,? says Kei Sekine, owner of
Bar Plastic Model. If you don?t know the difference, an education is waiting
through a set of unassuming doors in Shinjuku?s Golden Gai.



The curriculum is a respectable selection of Japanese seven-inch
singles from the mid 1970s to 1980s. ?I like to think of these as finger food,?
Sekine says of the records which occupy a space on the bar where you?d usually
find beer nuts. ?I want people to browse and be able to connect over the
records as they drink.?read more

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