Little Tokyo Düsseldorf

About this audio guide

This guide to Little Tokyo on Immermannstraße in Düsseldorf goes back to the years after the Second World War, when the city's register counted almost no Japanese at all. It follows a handful of Tokyo buyers drawn by the coal and steel of the nearby Ruhr and the river traffic of the Rhine, and the hotel that became a community's front room. Best heard standing on Immermannstraße itself, where you can see the shopfronts and the street signs.