Japan - Tokyo

Tokyo is one of the biggest cities worldwide. With arriving at airport Harita the luggage is searched and you are asked about objects to declare. Riding by train to the city seems weird, you think that you are in a metropolis but outside the window there are only fields passing by. By-and-by the settlement densifies and the buildings get larger. In the inner city you are flooded by impressions, advertisings glare in peregrine characters from all quarters and the crowded streets make your head ache. Still there are districts of Tokyo where you are able to immerge into Japanese society, if only you manage to turn invisible. Then you may notice the smallest shops, the people, how they attend their everyday life. Children are playing in the streets, the air is sweet with the smell of Japanese food coming from the restaurants and the supermarkets are non-stop open. You succeed in turing invisible and your head gradually fills up with impressions of this distant world.

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