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Short break: TOKYO; The city that's stranger than fiction Richard Lloyd Parry on how to embrace the extraordinary attractions of Toyko
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There's no point apologising for Tokyo: it's teeming, sprawling
but also, in the words of the historian Edward Seidensticker, "the
world's most consistently interesting city". Tokyo proper is home to
eight million people; add on the satellite cities and commuter towns
and the total for the megalopolis is 30 million, almost a quarter of
the Japanese population.
Tokyo has the world's biggest station, the most extravagant street
fashions, and the most kitsch and bizarre architecture. If ...
