Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Tokyo bookshop-slash-hotel.

While we’re all still in varying levels of lockdown, here’s a new travel destination to dream about: Book and Bed Tokyo. Book and Bed is an “accommodation bookshop”: a bookstore first, hostel second, so avid readers don’t need to pay attention to the time while browsing. At each of Book and Bed’s four locations, the […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-23 16:53:41 UTC ]
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