60. Walking the Streets of Tokyo with the characters from great fiction set in that city Diving In

Louise and Virginia have been immersed in some armchair travel to Tokyo, which has made them both very keen to travel there. These four books are great to read if you have a trip to Japan on your horizon or your bucket list. They also discuss some fabulous TV series to get streaming, a podcast, and they’ve both had very different recent experiences meeting Yotam Ottolenghi (although both evenings were great fun).
  
Books
 
Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. Published by St Martin’s Publishing Group
The Book of Tokyo – A City in Short Fiction, edited by Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks and Masashi Matsuie. 
Tokyo Redux by David Peace. Faber 2021
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori


Streaming TV series
 
Vardy v Rooney – Foxtel
Happy Valley – Binge
Bump – ABC


Podcast
 
The Mel Robbins Podcast
 
Yotam Ottolenghi – Test Kitchen