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[explodi]

I just recently got back from a few weeks in Japan visiting my friend. We went on a road trip all over the place. It's really quite weird being in a place as technological as Western society but with a very different psychology behind it. The country is massively forested, mountainous and depopulated everywhere with a few massive cities where

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[veronikos]

Thanks for the awesome travelogue. My son wants to go to Tokyo. Maybe I'll just let him read this.

[explodi]

Cool!
Though I was less keen on what I saw of Tokyo. Kyoto is the place to be for culture and pretty things, but maybe the mad lights and insane crowdedness is what he's after!

[veronikos]

>> mad lights and insane crowdedness

Games, electronics, noodle bars, and fast food, he says. But we are definitely going to watch a documentary or two about modern Japanese living, because I am hoping he will change his mind.

[messyfragments]

people always look at me strangely when I say I want to go to Kyoto - and say don't you mean Tokyo! I am glad to hear it is as pretty as I imagine it to be - one day I shall find out for myself

perhaps the lack of eco-warrior thing is to do with the culture difference - a more accepting eastern idea of balance opposed to our western guilt complexes...

[daimonos]

I loved reading this!