Shinjuku's jazz coffee shops (cont.)

Young jazz fans take jazz very seriously in Shinjuku, and nowhere will you find more serious listeners than in the Dig Coffee Shop, its burlap-covered walls inscribed with penciled messages from jazz stars who have dropped in over the years. Magazine pictures line the walls of the stairway up to Dig, and inside the happy fans sit enraptured, mostly not even conversing, to the perpetual, driving beat of the heavy guns of jazz. "Which do you prefer, hot jazz or cool jazz?" a young Japanese college student asked me on one of my visits. Mostly in here, it's of the hot variety. To find Dig, walk along streetcar avenue until you reach the alleyway directly across the street from the gold beer glass sign. It's halfway up the alley on the left. About average coffee and drink prices - 100-250 yen.

From Japan and Hong Kong on Five Dollars a Day (1965-66 Edition)

Distance walked today: 10.1km
Total distance walked since Tokaido training began: 103.2km
Days left until departure: 56