A thought on Tokyo
I’m starting to realize a particular variable that makes Tokyo, if not Japan in general, so exhausing and overwhelming. That is, the appearance and function of everything, down to the most irrelevent minutia, is so beyond over-considered that, as an outsider not used to that, you find yourself getting sucked into the unbelieveable details that most natives have come to take for granted. Nobody else is amazed at the perfection of the lavitories, the sterility and graceful design of the urinals, or the disposable, individually wrapped, single use toothbrushes and toothpastes in the public restrooms. None of the natives sit down at the restaurant and marvel at what a clever design solution their silverware is. Nobody else gives a shit about how stunningly elegent the bowl that their dinner comes in is. Every little tiny aspect of this experience, both the objects in it and the activities of the people in it, is so obsessively over-contemplated that it becomes this perfect static white-noise of overstimulation. When nothing is arbitrary, you start to notice everything. In Tokyo, I feel like I need bigger eyes. Or some serious blinders.
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I’ll be absolutely fascinated to hear what you guys think about Beijing after all of this. The two cities sound like polar opposites; I guess you could say that Beijing is like Tokyo without the skyline, the OCD cleanliness, the politeness, the good planning, or the Japanese people.
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