Saturday, May 13, 2006
Big Scary City?
Pick any guide book and you’ll find scary statistics about Tokyo. The ‘city’ has a population of something like 12 million, but more than thirty million live within 20 miles of the Imperial Palace. Shinjuku station is said to be the busiest in the world and is used by nearly 3 million people a day. Well we’ve only been here a week, but based on our limited experience it really isn’t scary. Shinjuku is a very busy station, but it looks like it was designed to cope (have these guidebook writers never been to Paddington in the evening?!).My one tip for anyone visiting on holiday would be to not worry too much about where your hotel is. If you look at a map of Tokyo it’s quite difficult to work out where the ‘centre’ is. The sights and shopping areas seem to be spread over a far greater area than in, say, London but the public transport is very efficient so getting around is pretty easy. It also means that even though we were here for almost a week we still didn’t see everything.....
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