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Liberdade

Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Centro Historico)
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As featured in 3 days in Sao Paulo
Ranked #30 of 271 attractions in Sao Paulo
Type: Neighborhoods
Fee: No
Recommended length of visit: 2-3 hours
Traveler Description: Instead of Chinatown, in Sao Paulo there is "Japantown."  In this neighborhood, you get a really interesting perspective of what happens when Japan... more »
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Sao Paulo, SP
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed May 20, 2013 NEW

You can live the real japanese culture. Eat good japanese food and buy some gifts as the lucky cat and lucky objects from japanese culture.

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Guarulhos, SP
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed May 10, 2013

Oriental street market, with typical products, and japanese food. The people who lives there are 90% oriental (japanese, chinese or korean native). But is good to eat some sushi/tempura and buy handmade things at Sundays.

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Bray, Ireland
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2 of 5 stars Reviewed April 30, 2013

Unless you're really interested on buying some chinese stuff, don't waste your time. Went there cause I thought I would see nice stuff about the culture or whatever, but nothing to do there and it's not even beautiful or charming or even clean. Food is extremely expensive for the price.

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Uruguay
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed April 28, 2013

I expected quite a lot more. I suspect the most interesting thing to do there is to eat in a japanese, korean or chinese restaurant. A tip: look where people dining or having lunch are all chinese, japanese or korean. Those are good and real.

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São Paulo
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed April 26, 2013

Coming to São Paulo and then visiting a Japanese district may seem a bit odd but, as the city is not exactly bursting with tourist attractions, Liberdade has become something of a must for visitors. It is only a five-minute walk from Praça da Sé and the downtown area and easily accessible by metro and/or bus from the Avenida Paulista... More

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Brazil
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed April 15, 2013

Like Little Italy and Chinatown, Liberdade is a Japanese traditional neighbor where the first japanese imigrants came to Brazil. Lot of stores and traditional street food (on Sundays moring to evening).

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Sao Paulo, SP
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed April 4, 2013

A great place to buy authentic asian incredients for cooking and also but everything you need for the kitchen from cast ion pots to authentic Japanese earthenware and tableware, worth a visit check out the market there on Saturday for some excellent street food.

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Sao Paulo, SP
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed March 28, 2013

I go there to buy hard to find Asian ingredients. This is Little Tokyo, but it's actually home to some good Chinese food. Some of the Japanese places aren’t so good.

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Munich, Germany
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed March 17, 2013

streets full of tiny Japanese and Chinese shops where you can find all kind of strange things... but of course also a lot of Chinese and Japanese food! But as a German visiting Brazil, I was not too excited, as I found the original Brazilian parts of town more interesting

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Sevastopol, Ukraine
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed February 9, 2013 via mobile

I expected to find some nice healthy food, to see interesting people and enjoy beauty of Asia . We found homeless buggers, dirty streets with meanless souvenirs, hundreds of people, tasteless food and ran away. Susi was crap, bigger than Apple size. Nothing.waste of time. McDonald's and subway don't sell coffee. Smelly streets I would prefer to avoid. Nope. Thanks.... More

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