this neighborhood is known by its "japanese look" with its japanese style lamps, japanese goods shops, and so on. a great part of the japanese immigrants built their shops and business around this neighborhood, as homes as well.
today, liberdade is well known for the chinese people who own almost all the japanese goods shops. its more like a little chinatown, but they have a great variety of products from japanese rice to green tea, anpam, youkan and i'm always there to buy one of this things or karepan, poba tea or just a japanese meal.
the neighborhood looks old but lately there have been some investments on it and maybe in a few years it will look very different from now. that's what i hope!
