Tune in Tokyo
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The greater Tokyo metropolitan area is home to over 35 million people- making it the most populous metropolitan area in the world.
Based on this fact alone, we expected Tokyo to be extremely crowded, noisy, and dirty. We discovered the exact opposite.
In four days, we heard exactly one car horn. Traffic is non-existent thanks to the excellent subway system, and since there’s no traffic, there’s also no pollution. Unlike every other country we’ve visited in Asia, no one litters. Trash cans force citizens to toss plastic with plastic and paper with paper. No one cuts in line, no one stares, no one blows their nose in public, and no one chats on their cell phone on the subway. This is urban paradise- and the closest thing to societal utopia I’ve ever experienced.
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