@tpeng2009

My first time in Tokyo was 30 years ago. Like all places, there are plenty of changes, but the things that have remained the same is more curious. Changes: more foreign tourists and probably residents; no more platform monitors to push people into the crowded metro trains; no more dancing Elvis in public squares; more overlapping train-lines (sometimes competing); slightly more Japanese who speak English; Same: crowdedness; politeness; safety (little school kids walking to school); smallness of things (spaces, products, street, cars), food; the cutesy culture (where women like to dress up as school girls and even carry Hello Kitty bags with business suits); crazy amount of shopping culture;