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kneemos

An incredible 38 million souls.
Tokyo Bay
Japan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JriJWkU3RV19h9wz8

Packed into what mostly looks like this rabbit warren of streets.

Itabashi City, Tokyo
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WeuyPPVWGX9nVARi7

No doubt the apartments are glorified wardrobes. No front or even back garden,very little in the way of parks or playing fields either.

A human anthill.

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Plumbthedepths

Grand bunch of lads though, just like their other Asian buddies.

Ninthlife

Dont forget to throw in Godzilla

Sharp MZ700

Safest city I've ever been in.

McMurphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUTBOMsAcE

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kneemos wrote: »

An incredible 38 million souls.
Tokyo Bay

Packed into what mostly looks like this rabbit warren of streets.

A human anthill.

Also an anagram of Kyoto, the old capital city. The more you know.

Bobblehats

WWWWW

Was wonderin’ why wibbs wasn’t too keen on those girls.

Richard Hillman

My favourite place in the world.

It's very well organised and people are respectful of personal space both physically and in terms of noise. Remarkably clean too. If you're walking down a busy street, people will keep to the left hand side of the path, like on the roads. It works well because the people make it work.

Hong Kong is very similar too. Extremely dense (Second most dense to Dhaka) but so well organised that you'll never feel overawed.

henryporter

They even have an area named after a motorbike!

ShauntaMetzel

I love the Toyko because of their hard working people. They don't engage in others' stuff. Secondly, I love the cherry blossom trees of Toyko. The third and last love of Toyko are their anime and manga.

cml387

I suppose that knowing that you're living in an active earthquake zone would add a certain frisson,especially if you live on the 34th floor.

Bobblehats

Room shared with son of a japanese minister at my uncles in cricklewood once the chap had only brung a stack of razzles with him so he didn’t get homesick! Offloaded them to me upon leaving, nice gesture

wakka12

The space is limited and they dont have big gardens but they have ways around with good architectural design.Look at streetview, every residential building is built to fit individual needs and react to specific site context and make most use of space. Courtyards are small but impactful and space is well considered to be efficient despite limited size as well.

Mean while every irish house is an exact replica semi d repeated over and over. Sitting in an ocean of wasted space, massive unused garden, wide lifeless roads, huge ugly driveways, I much prefer live in a well designed micro house in tokyo with plenty of street life and amenities right outside my door than the soul sucking depressing existence of endless sprawling irish suburbia

I heard an interesting quote once that the only thing worse than too little space is too much and I think that really applies here in the context of japanese micro housing vs irish mcmansions

NickNickleby

My son lived there for 8 years, he speaks reads and writes the lingo fluently.

I saw his apartments, and one of them might possibly have fitted into my living room. It was specifically designed and built to house singletons. But it was in a beautiful area of Tokyo, called Oji. It has beautiful parks and riverside walks.

He brought me to a street in Oji, not too disimilar to the one in your photo, and there was a small plaque - easily passed by without being noticed. It marked one edge of land that was the domain of William Adams - the Englishman marooned in Japan who became a samurai. His life story is worth a read. Or you can watch Richard Chamberlain in Shogun, which I believe was loosely based on Adams' life.

Anyway, despite what you might think, the locals don't go nuts because of the close quartered living conditions. I think that is why they have developed the strange to us behaviour of being in their own little bubble while out and about. But when you do interact with them, they (in my experience*) were all very helpful and polite. My son says I view them through rose tinted glasses.

Even though he's now home, I might still try to engineer another holiday there. Even with my fairly good local knowledge (ie, where the cheap hotels are!) its still a very expensive trip. But unforgettable. I am of course not confining that to Tokyo, which has its own fascinating places to visit, I have also crammed in Hiroshima, Yokohama,Kyoto, Osaka, Morioka (where? you ask

:D) and Tokyo into a 2 week visit. Nearly killed me. Didn't help the bank balance either. But enough of the bragging!! (no, honestly, I just like remembering it).

0lddog

kneemos wrote: »

An incredible 38 million souls.
Tokyo Bay
Japan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JriJWkU3RV19h9wz8

Packed into what mostly looks like this rabbit warren of streets.

Itabashi City, Tokyo
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WeuyPPVWGX9nVARi7

No doubt the apartments are glorified wardrobes. No front or even back garden,very little in the way of parks or playing fields either.

A human anthill.

Sounds like you have not been there

Make a virtual trip

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwxJts-6yF33rupyF_DCsA

and post again

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Let me spoon feed you a few links :

Q & A Quality of life in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVtBDbQBEA

Parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tm8WRniGFY

They furnish their new house https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_uOX3IeD68

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MrAbyss wrote: »

The Japanese are basically a tribe. They work for their tribe and not global diversity. This generally results in putting things like oh I dunno...developing world class infrastructure which can manage the 38 million in the Greater Tokyo area instead of say, real social achievements like getting a bi-curious, disabled, trans-fluid Moslem in charge of the police force like normal sane countries do.

They've also got some incredibly ****ed up social issues, and let's not get started on their sexual deviancies

Junkyard Tom

MrAbyss wrote: »

The Japanese are basically a tribe. They work for their tribe and not global diversity. This generally results in putting things like oh I dunno...developing world class infrastructure which can manage the 38 million in the Greater Tokyo area instead of say, real social achievements like getting a bi-curious, disabled, trans-fluid Moslem in charge of the police force like normal sane countries do.

15 posts before the outrage junkies start to ruin things. I recommend you go back to YouTube comments to immerse yourself in the dopey US culture war.

Bobblehats

JT should know here’s been there n all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82VMBj6E1aQ

Pherekydes

I wanna go!

...to the Olympics!

JohnnyFlash

Was there a few years ago. Mighty spot, if a little overwhelming due to the sheer size of the place. Exceptionally good food as well.

branie2

The setting for my favourite James Bond movie

Realt Dearg Sec

Total cornage

Sharp MZ700

Some lads to drink whiskey those tokyonese?
And not your run of the mill Paddy or Jamieson.

Had the sushimi and the whole wasabi works the first night I was there, blew the hole off me. Remember going to the city gardens, it was pure tranquility. The TV tower at night time was epic.
Crossing part of Tokyo bay walking one of the bridges was about the most familiar feeling to home I had, other than that, every thing was a culture shock. You'd be looking at a shop and not have a clue was it a supermarket, hotel, cinema or whatever. Not one iota of English bar the bigger brand names, and that's what made it for me.

KilOit

Always amazed at how populated Japan is for it's land size and yet have nearly 70% forested

Your Face

I was there years ago and am now an expert on everything Japanese.

wakka12

KilOit wrote: »

Always amazed at how populated Japan is for it's land size and yet have nearly 70% forested

Thats what you get with a culture that doesnt value over sized mcmansions

biko

Possibly my favourite place in the world.
Considering they were nuked not once but twice and still bounced back to become a world leader is truly remarkable.

SixtaWalthers

Though people love Tokyo because of its manga, anime and culture, but I love it because of its people because they care a lot about feeling. I also respect their honest and introvert personality traits. Secondly, I love Tokyo because of cherry blossoms. Before this coronavirus pandemic, we had plans to visit Tokyo in April. But unluckily, we missed it. But I can share some of my favourite Tokyo places here:

Hopefully, next year, we can plan to visit Tokyo in the Spring season. By the way, Tokyo isn't a city but a big prefecture with 26 cities 23 wards and many remote islands, and you can read more from here https://www.jluggage.com/blog/japan/is-tokyo-a-city/. In my opinion, instead of visiting different places in Japan, it is better if you only visit more cities in Tokyo Metropolis state. You can explore more about travel guides from this place https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html.

Other places that must be visited could be Ginza District, The Sensō-Ji Temple and Ueno Park and Zoo. I would also be willing to click photos with my favourite characters in the Ghibli museum, but I heard its still close. I think Tokyo authorities should open it when Disney lands around the globe are beginning with SOPs.

amadangomor

Bobblehats wrote: »

Room shared with son of a japanese minister at my uncles in cricklewood once the chap had only brung a stack of razzles with him so he didn’t get homesick! Offloaded them to me upon leaving, nice gesture

Hope he didn't learn English from you. :pac:

Also sorry if rude again but what are you on about?

king_of_mayo

It'll be half empty in a few decades.

ohnonotgmail

amadangomor wrote: »

Hope he didn't learn English from you. :pac:

Also sorry if rude again but what are you on about?

razzle was a porn mag back in the day. so a stack of razzles was a stack of porn mags.