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Industry Meets Inspiration In Tokyo
okyo just might be the shopping complexes in addition to
largest city in the world, the cultural favorites. The Ginza
comprised of 23 individual shopping district reigns supreme
wards, all with their own unique for ostentatious spending habits,
characteristics. Foreigners are with thousands of mega-stores,
easily intimidated by the sheer boutiques and an excessive array
expanse of Japan’s capital city of non-functional novelty stores
and its 17 million inhabitants (5 for the easily amused within us
million are commuters); however, all. For a dose of New York in
due to this volume alone Tokyo Tokyo, visit Shibuya, which is
has developed an unmatched public rife with higher-end shops,
transportation system and an shrines, King-Kong-sized plasma
intricate network of visitor TV screens and the busiest
friendly information resources. pedestrian street crossing in the
The best way to travel Tokyo’s world.
frantic bustle is to allow the
subway to lead the way. A loose A Culture of Retrospect and
itinerary will draw you into true Reflection
Japanese life through unexpected
encounters and more intimate There is a tendency to become
experiences. inundated and desensitized by the
neon lights that line the city
Tokyo: A Consumer Capital streets like masts in Japan’s
ocean of technology. While these
It may be ironic that one of the electric temples serve to extol a
most expensive cities in the hyper-modern age, Tokyo also
world also has one of the most possesses some of the most
rampant and flamboyant consumer idyllic and serene shrines and
cultures. Tourist attractions in pagodas in the country.
Tokyo consist of many gargantuan Meiji-jingu is the most
impressive of Tokyo’s Shinto Shinjuku. Directly in the center
shrines, built with Japanese of Tokyo, the Imperial Palace
cypress and copper plates for the (Kokyo) is an inner-city
roof. Even though the shrine was sanctuary that is home to the
destroyed during World War II, Imperial Family. The public can
the reconstruction has not lost visit the surrounding East
any of the grandeur. Just north Gardens and walk along the double
of the city, Bonsai Park treats bridge over the tranquil moats of
visitors to the zen-like art of the palace grounds, but the
cultivating these meticulously palace buildings and inner
placed miniature trees and courtyard are closed to visitors.
experiencing the calming of the
mind. An essential experience for Travel to Tokyo with a
anyone traveling to Tokyo is the willingness to get lost among the
view of Mount Fuji in the early hustle and perhaps find yourself
hours of dawn. This is possible again in the silence of a shrine.
from within the city, atop one of The expansive city and system of
the massive skyscrapers such as subways make it nearly impossible
the Government Building in to make a wrong turn.
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