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 okyo
has the world's biggest station, the most extravagant street
fashions, and the most kitsch and bizarre architecture. If crowds
and excess and 24-hour city fever excite you, then it's the ultimate
urban experience. |
| Pretty and Hot in Pink in Shinjuku |
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| At first glance,
much of Tokyo looks the same, but after a couple of days, the varied
character of the city's districts - served by the immaculate and
unfailingly reliable public transport system - reveal themselves. |
okyo
is a city of tribes, each with its own gathering place - Shibuya,
where Japanese schoolgirls loll in their extravagant make-up, tiny skirts
and monstrous platform boots; Shinjuku, where gangsters, pimps and bar
girls lurk beneath a Bladerunner landscape of skyscrapers and noodle bars;
and Akihabara, where computer and electronics enthusiasts gather
to buy the latest gadgets. Tokyo has the world's biggest station, the
most extravagant street fashions, and the most kitsch and bizarre architecture.
If crowds and excess and 24-hour city fever excite you, then it's the
ultimate urban experience. |
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As the greatest and
richest city in Asia. It is impossible to be bored in Tokyo. If you have
only one day in Tokyo, spend the morning in Asakusa and the evening
in Shinjuku. The former is at the heart of Shitamachi, the "Low City"
which is the last remnant of old Edo, as Tokyo used to be called. Shinjuku
is opposite in atmosphere to Akasaka, a metropolis within a megalopolis,
and the area that epitomizes the most dramatic features of modern Tokyo:
teeming crowds, an epic railway station (allow yourself at least 20 minutes
to get lost in it), visionary high-rise architecture, multiple department
stores and a maze of neon-lit snuggeries devoted to the "water trade"
of drinking, entertainment and sex.
Start your evening beneath the giant TV screen of Studio Alta,
the most popular Shinjuku meeting place. Behind here is Kabukicho,
one of the sleaziest and most atmospheric corners of Tokyo. Despite the
many peep shows, sex cinemas and "no-pants" coffee shops (the
waitresses lack pants; the floors have mirrors), Kabukicho is extremely
safe compared to equivalent quarters in other cities, and you can steer
between the temptations to cheap (and conventional) bars and restaurants
serving great ethnic food, especially Thai. |
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