Nakano Broadway

This guide to Nakano Broadway in Tokyo starts with a rock star: in the late 1960s, singer Kenji Sawada kept an apartment here, riding a private elevator past a rooftop pool and golf range in what developers called the greatest building in Asia. It follows the mall's fall from luxury address to shuttered arcade through the 1970s, and the young manga dealer who opened a tiny secondhand shop on the second floor in 1980. Look for the bones of that 1960s luxury complex still visible in the corridors as you walk through.