Sitting on the south-eastern side of Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago, the capital city of Tokyo has developed a reputation for its extreme innovation, fast-paced lifestyle and a rate of growth as impressive as its unique culture. Businessmen in suits read hefty manga volumes in the clean, air-conditioned trains, market stalls stand beneath towering skyscraper office blocks and glossy museums, and crushed ice and melons are served by street vendors beneath cherry blossom trees that in spring coat the city in pink. From the out-there fashion statements of the iconic Harajuku quarter to the traditional public baths and Shinto shrines, via the high-speed bullet train and the glittering shopping districts, Tokyo is a microcosm of Japanese history across the ages, a once floating world now firmly encased in the present and pushing itself into the future with bewildering vig
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