Tuesday, April 12, 2011

What is is like to be in tokyo?

Question:


because i want to go there one day
:D

Answer:


Tokyo is a very large metropolitan city not unlike other mega-cities like New York, Paris, London, Mexico City, etc. Key differences are:
- most of the "old" Tokyo was destroyed during WWII. Most of the buildings, roads, etc. were built after 1945. There is still a couple of old Edo sections
- roads are quite narrow, parking expensive, transportation is very well organized (trains, subways and taxis). Public transportations runs from 5am to 12am (give or take a few minutes...)
- Many business sections have little inhabitants at night to the point where the government requires builders to build residential buildings when they build office buildings
- Lots of little neighborhood places that you just need to experiment until you find your favorites
- fairly expensive if you have no clue what you are doing
- lots of people although somehow you do not feel crowded in
- safe (no street crime)
- clean (every shop owner is responsible for cleaning the space in front of their store, building managers clean in front of their buildings, etc.)
- very limited number of trash cans. Yeah, that's odd especially given how clean the city is. People just carry their garbage with them

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