Tag: Tokyo Trip 2023

• Lonely Tokyo

  

  Tokyo… A liminal place full of quiet spaces?

  January 26, 2025

  Analysis, Place, Travel

• Wabi-Sabi

  

  Tokyo is a half-and-half city. Its land mass is huge; its ramen shops are counter space only. Big roads, no cars. Interactions are very polite and at the same time withdrawn. Everything is one-way and then another. The most fun opposition is an aesthetic called “wabi-sabi”. This idea is not unique to Japan. France has…

  February 22, 2023

  Analysis, Place, Travel

• Rules

  

  Tokyo has an oppressive number of signs. But as I found out, telling people the rules can be a kindness.

  February 12, 2023

  Analysis, Place, Travel