{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "city": "Tokyo",
  "local_city_name": "東京",
  "pronunciation": "toh-kyoh",
  "country": "Japan",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Lists of places that age well, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/tokyo",
  "updated": "June 2026",
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    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
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      "area": "Komaba",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Mingei as a way of seeing: ordinary things, useful things, handmade things, given full attention.",
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      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "21_21 DESIGN SIGHT",
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      "area": "Roppongi",
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      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Design treated as inquiry rather than lifestyle. A good room for seeing how Japan explains objects to itself.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
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    },
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      "category": "Architecture",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Low, precise, and partly hidden. Architecture behaving more like a cut in the ground than a monument.",
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      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Tokyo Station",
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      "city_pronunciation": "toh-kyoh",
      "area": "Marunouchi",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Architecture",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A useful ending point that still knows how to carry ceremony, brick, movement, and departure.",
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      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Maruni",
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      "city_pronunciation": "toh-kyoh",
      "area": "Tokyo",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Shop",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Furniture, wood, proportion, restraint. A room where design feels slower than the city outside.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "LAMMAS",
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      "city_pronunciation": "toh-kyoh",
      "area": "Tokyo",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Shop",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Cheese as a small specialist world. A good counterpoint to the predictable Tokyo shopping loop.",
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      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Nishiguchi",
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      "city_pronunciation": "toh-kyoh",
      "area": "Tokyo",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Eat",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Marked by the recent path. Keep for now, then sharpen after the room is written properly.",
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    }
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}