Tourist Rosa Quintana joined a pair of volunteer tour guides in Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku district Tuesday on an exploration of a department store basement stuffed with a myriad of gourmet food stalls.</PARAGRAPH>
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<TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>Rosa Quintana from Puerto Rico views the entrance to Shinjuku Suehirotei, a theater dedicated to 'rakugo' traditional comic storytelling in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Tuesday, with volunteer
tour guides Hideo Suzuki –
and Noboru Suzuki.
The underground food floor is popular with Tokyo residents but can be bewildering to foreign tourists who attempt to navigate the wide variety of Western and Japanese-style delicatessens alone.
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