Nakameguro, with its picturesque river, is a unique place that everyone has to come and visit at some point. A typical residential district by day, Nakameguro is by night and during the weekends, a fashionable place to have a drink and dinner with friends. It plays host to a huge range of restaurants, bars and small clubs where some Japanese indie artists come to jam.
Today Nakameguro ranks as one of the “hippest” neighborhoods in Tokyo, though its past has not always been so glamorous. Indeed towards the end of the World War 2, when the US dropped thousands of firebombs over Tokyo, a lot of people died after jumping into the river trying to escape the surrounding inferno. Many still believed at that time that the river was haunted and until 1980, the Nakameguro river was filled with industrial waste. Local residents wanted to be as far away as possible from the smelly, disgusting river. It was only at the end of the 1980s that the Tokyo city council decided to clean up the place, and slowly but surely, Nakameguro and its river became a fashionable place to visit and live.
