Visited City Country City – a beautiful secondhand record shop in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo in December 2009. Lovingly curated selection of jazz, rock, soul, psych, disco and folk. If that’s not enough, it’s named after a WAR song and you can buy beer and food to sustain you as you browse.

The very friendly proprietor invited me to sign the wall but I didn’t think I was exactly up there with the folks who’d tagged it before…