Mentions (17)
"I knew Mishima was a controversial character there, but even in present day Tokyo? They still honor his grave and revere him as an author generally, but this experience really made me question how he is regarded in Japan."
"you can order food without talking to people, go to a restaurant and eat alone alongside 10 other people eating alone, pursue countless loner hobbies (the pachinko parlors in Tokyo were nuts)."
"Biggest city in the americas & 4th largest city in the world but it's never mentioned with the likes of NYC, Tokyo or even CDMX."
"99% of gaijin in japan are normies because the country actually has more to offer than a handful of creepy figure shops in akihabara. seems like every other bogan australian i know has blacked out on strong zero or terrorised shibuya motorists in rental mario karts, and yet the pseuds here are someh"
"Photo by Burt Glinn, Tokyo, 1961"
"It makes me wanna visit tokyo and get into y2k clothing. Much cooler depiction of Tokyo than Lost in Translation (i hate that movie, its so fake)."
"Hello I'm a japanese listener of the pod and was thinking that would be cool to link up with other listeners in japan (i live in Tokyo)"
"I can't remember the last day I logged on and didn't find one of my friends (or exes) were suddenly frolicking about in Santorini, New York, Tokyo etc."
"Hi l'm a japanese rs listener and wondering if there's any people who listen the pod or be on this sub in Tokyo. would be cool to have drinks at a Mishima's favorite bar"
"I became good friends with a girl who sat next to me at a concert in Tokyo. We've been exchanging fun letters with printed photos and little drawings for six years now."
"Doesn't matter if it's in NYC, Vienna, Tokyo, or a village in Kenya. There will always be the same procedures and the same communion."
"Restaurants in my town are indistinguishable from those in Dublin or Tokyo. Accents are homogenizing fast with the UK's local accents all melting together into larger regional ones."
"Even average cities outside Tokyo, Osaka, or Hiroshima feature cool little two-person bars or other quirky establishments that simply don't exist *in large quantities* in the West."
"Even average cities outside Tokyo, Osaka, or Hiroshima feature cool little two-person bars"
"I'm a japanese rs listener and wondering if there's any people who listen the pod or be on this sub in Tokyo."
"I spent most of the time just working full time at a shit chain restaurant in Tokyo."
"I am watching videos of downtown Tokyo at night. Yes, the air quality seems pretty bad...but you know what? At least there are a lot of cool lights and so on."