One of the biggest problems with Tokyo's avant-garde art scene is finding it.
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In most Western cities, the painters and poets and anarchists and dreamers move into disused buildings in run-down neighborhoods, a community of cafes with big bulletin boards (Rolfing sessions, zither lessons) springs up, and small, artist-run galleries gradually emerge around them. But there are few bohemian neighborhoods in Tokyo, and the high-rent Ginza Strip, home to most of the city's galleries, is almost completely devoid of alternative art spaces.