Following on from my brief stopover in Dubai I returned to Tokyo 2.5 years after leaving it last. Having lived just outside Tokyo for 4 years from 2007-2011, (and leaving just after the Earthquake and Tsunami), it was an emotional experience for me to return for the first time. In many ways it was as if I had never left, not a lot had changed and the city is as mindblowingly amazing as ever.
Thanks for this whirlwind tour of perhaps the greatest of all cities. I can't wait to get back there again.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
God I miss that place, will be curious to see how Shanghai stacks up in a couple of weeks.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish