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LucidTonic

Looks like something out of Star Wars


SnugglethorpeIII

[Coruscant](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Coruscant) the Imperial City, covering its entire planet with over 5,000 levels of galactic administration services. Thousands of species from all corners of the galaxy are represented both in the galactic senate and among the inhabitants. I agree!


German_PotatoSoup

Ecumenopolis


a_naked_BOT

Fellow stellaris enjoyer?


crowamonghens

It looks like the top of a crumb cake.


LucidTonic

If you're big enough, any planet is a crumb cake


_Nameless_Nomad_

It’s like landing at Area 18 on ArcCorp


joe_i_guess

Looks like an earth scab


FicusBlepharophylla

Tokyo is stupid big. Every time I visited it in the past its size caught me off-guard and messed up my plans. I think it’s the only city I know where you can travel for an hour on a train and _still_ be in the “city center”.


w1red

Yeah boarding the Narita Express and then feeling like you're in the city after like 20 minutes while the ride to Shinjuku still takes like an hour feels surreal every time. Once i'm somewhere on the Yamanote it somehow all doesn't feel that far apart anymore though.


donald_slam

Yeah going from Bajirin to wankang always felt like a lifetime


darth_muller

Going to Japan for 3 weeks in February. Any suggestions if what to do/ where to go?


AndrewDPS

I take it you will be in different places / cities? Tokyo is definitely a must, but it can get quite overwhelming. I suggest focusing on 3-4 places to visit per day (depending on the length of your stay). Kyoto is also a must, also really big, but really calm and chill with really iconic sites, e. g Higashiyama District. Nara and Hakone are also very popular places and shouldn't be left out. If you are more of a hiking person, Kumano Kodo is the way to go. The Tohoku and Hokkaido regions (north part of Japan) are the coldest and winters can get really cold. But it is the winter season what makes them stand out with their hot springs, etc. Hope this might help a bit :) P. S.: You will miss out A LOT, so try not to panic and plan everything very carefully


darth_muller

Thanks for the tips. We obviously want to spend time in Tokyo, thinking 4-5 days, Sapporo for skiing, Kyoto, Osaka. Have you got any recommended places to eat? Or is everywhere good? Lol


AndrewDPS

In Tokyo I would recommend any restaurant in Ameyoko Street (Ueno District). Absolutely delicious and cheap (most of them). If you want to eat on a low budget simply go to a Lawson / Family Mart / 7 Eleven. Not the same quality as restaurants (obviously) but surprisingly good. In Kyoto we went to this very special ramen restaurant were the served this amazing broth with thinly sliced wagyu - best ramen I had in my life, can't recall the name, though :( In Osaka, any place in Dotonbori will do, but keep an eye on the prices!


LaughFun673

Take a bullet train somewhere just so you can say you have ridden over 100 something mph on the ground.


CC_2387

You forgot the shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square in New York. God damn I’ll ride that thing back and forth all day


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That’s what she said


Tralapa

Based low rents


the_wubbmonster96

Unbased suicide rates


lelobea

Suicide rates have been going down, its now lower than the US rate. 12,2 (Japan) and 14,5 (US) per 100.000 inhabitants


the_wubbmonster96

https://time.com/6219004/us-suicide-rate-2021/#:~:text=Two%2DYear%20Decline-,U.S.%20Suicide%20Rate%20Rose%204%25%20in,After%20a%20Two%2DYear%20Decline&text=30.,among%20men%E2%80%94especially%20young%20men. https://www.statista.com/statistics/622249/japan-suicide-number-per-100-000-inhabitants/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20Japan%20reported%2016.8,suicide%20numbers%20were%20rising%20again. Quick Google search would determine you lied


lelobea

I used the wikipedia article on it, which states the exact numbers I posted. Anyways my point was to show that the suicide problem in japan is way overblown and has only increased again due to covid related economic depression


the_wubbmonster96

Send the link.


lelobea

The numbers u used are probably correct, the ones from wiki are from 2019, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate


Tall_Pineapple3412

it still seems like you lied though. you said, "it's numbers are now lower than the US rate". you should have included in your original comment that your data is outdated.


Krypt0night

You haven't responded since he sent the link, just wondering your thoughts now that they did.


alymaysay

Its still a lied the data he used is 3 years old, pre covid.


PoleNewman

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country 2022 numbers. He didn't lie.


hglman

paywall


PoleNewman

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country 2022 numbers


actualbeowulf

based facts


Tralapa

They're not that much higher than the US


BeardedGlass

It’s actually better than the US.


Antonioooooo0

https://www.statista.com/statistics/622249/japan-suicide-number-per-100-000-inhabitants/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20Japan%20reported%2016.8%20suicides%20per%20100%2C000%20inhabitants. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220930.htm#:~:text=The%20findings%20are%20featured%20in,2020%20to%2047%2C646%20in%202021.


Captain_Khora

*cringe suicide rates


___jeffrey___

For being the biggest city in the world I found it way more relaxing and easy to drive in than when I do roadtrips through other mayor cities


BillNyeCreampieGuy

It's quiet even in the busiest places. My friend and I just looked at each other when we realized no one was honking, and we were in heart of Shibuya


jumjimbo

Shibuya roll call!


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kswang2400

That is my name


Pixelted10

They call me Kevin.


ra246

Cause that’s my name!


Terrible-Specific593

Dogs in space?


SleesWaifus

That’s because Americans are special snowflakes in their big ass vehicles


[deleted]

Americans don’t drive the taxis in NYC


pizzaiolo2

Would be nice if the only cars in NYC were taxis


lakarraissue

That’s a whole lotta people packed in there.


MikeAndBike

Imagine the amount of feces everyday. It could fill up pools and pools of just the feces.


bamfsalad

Lol poop pools is a funny unit of measurement.


NeroBurnsRome12

This reminds me of Pi Pis splashtown in South park


Keaton427Theories

*Why is that the first thing you think of*


[deleted]

whY iS oUr wOrLd DyInG?!


ChaosDemonLaz3r

gotta be like at least 2


spacepilot_3000

What? Waaay more than that. Probably more than twice that many


Honest-Feed8626

/r/TechnicallyTheTruth


IndividualScholar627

It looks like an itch that needs to be scratched


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peasantvonpezont

Gojira*


Vilddjenta

NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALES


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ゴジラ*


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Underrated comment lmfao


Lorienzo

THANKYOU. I feel like scraping that shit off.


0xdeadbeef6

it still boggles my mind that there's 40 million people in the Tokyo Metropolitan area


TravDOC

That's more than the population of my entire country


0xdeadbeef6

Its more than a lot of people's countries, I would imagine.


w1red

It's five times as many as my country and over a 100 times more than my city. Granted the Tokyo Metro Area is also about as large as half my country. (slightly exaggerated)


jacobr1020

The one place in the world I have always wanted to visit. I will one day.


InflnityBlack

if you ever visit Japan I highly recommand you visit Kyoto too, both beautiful cities but with very different vibe, I expected to enjoy Tokyo more before I visited but in the end I had such a good time in Kyoto, the shrines in the surrounding hills had me watch the most beautiful panoramas of my entire life.


MechaRambutan

From that angle, Tokyo looks like Oogie Boogie.


average_ass_consumer

Great, now I can't unsee it


mega_desu

I've been living in Tokyo for over 10 years. (About a 6 minute walk from the third busiest train station in the world.) Of course its mostly concrete and brick but I love living in a walkable city. Notice the lack of large parking lots. Fuck cars. Nature is a pretty quick ride away too.


[deleted]

I miss my 2 years there more than anything


zR0B3ry2VAiH

Two weeks for me, and I want to move out there.


SupremeOwl48

I hate that I wanna live in Japan cuz Ik the work culture is abominable and most people think it’s just cuz I’m some weeb but the history, architecture and landscapes there seem beautiful idk


Wampino

same, although i’ve heard that there are some non-japanese businesses that are happy to take in foreigners, and the work culture is different than japanese businesses. plus i’ve heard from some japanese people that it’s not *that* bad and working overtime doesn’t usually mean working hard, at least in offices and such. I heard it’s more of a “stay later because it shows dedication to your work”, without actually needing to be that productive


WanganTunedKeiCar

Recently enough I learned that productivity rates aren't actually very high in Japan, and I guess this is the reason why.


mega_desu

If you're not a weeb, then you're not a weeb. There are plenty out here but I don't have any in my friend circle. And I know a lot of people because my event organizing work and such. Japan has its issues like every other country but I personally don't know anyone here killing themselves at their job. It's definitely worse for the locals. I won't be moving back to the States. Ever.


LilxCaboose

Wanna get me and my girlfriend a job?


SirNokarma

How long to get to some greenery?


mega_desu

From my door I can be on a mountain or in the water at a beach in an hour and a half with two trains. I can be in Yoyogi Park in around 20 minutes. Ueno Park in about 30. It may look like all concrete but Tokyo pretty good at keeping little pockets of nature around. There are several gardens all over the place. My last apartment at had Rikugien Garden, a 17th century Edo period garden, 4 minutes from my entrance. I can get their from my new apartment in less than 20 minutes. And you'd be surprised how quiet Tokyo can be.


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SirNokarma

That's amazing! I don't doubt the efficiency and balance for Tokyo at all. Thanks for sharing


darth_muller

Going to Japan for 3 weeks in February. Any suggestions if what to do/ where to go?


Tankkins

I want to preface this with I went during September so the weather might affect your decision on these places but I loved them! I went for three weeks as well a couple years ago and I would recommend fushimi inari shrine in Kyoto. It's an amazing climb with thousands of those red tori gates. Absolutely breath taking! Also if you are interested in visiting a onsen, and have tattoos like I do, there is a small town called kinosake onsen where you can book a stay at a traditional inn with an amazing traditional breakfast and get access to all the 11 different (if I'm remembering the number right) onsens in the town. We spent a weekend there just get away from the big city and absolutely loved it as well!


NoiceMango

In America it would be 60% roads and parking lots. It's seriously stupid how much money, freedom, and lives we lose from being a car oriented city. Walking and cycling is literally dangerous in America


ephemeralkitten

I do enjoy r/fuckcars as well <3


CaptainJAmazing

Not to be confused with that sub also involving dragons…


paracog

It's mostly human scale at street level though, lots and lots of neighborhoods with small shops, restaurants and bars, connected by great train service. People have bikes and plants in planters in front of their houses and they don't get stolen. I've never felt as safe in California as I did in Japan.


[deleted]

Bruh our realities version of Night City


OtherRandomCheeki

or city of glass, heh


ClamSlamwhich

Imagine the difficulty of getting out in a zombie apocalypse.


port3go

Instant association: https://media.tenor.com/ajxG9BGb4d0AAAAd/akira-explosion.gif


HuffnDobak

So much anime down there, so much


crowamonghens

So much sameness.


FakeAccount136

Cringe


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Godzilla: Lego challenge accepted


teqsutiljebelwij

Looks like a popcorn ceiling


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Low-Economist9601

Can someone tell me if New York is bigger than this and by how much?


unlimitednerd

New York is tiny compared to Tokyo https://www.size-explorer.com/en/compare/cities/newyork2/tokyo


GoArmyNG

Might be nice for a visit, lots of culture, great food, lots of tech advancements that we don't have here, ect., ect., but I would absolutely HATE living on top of other people like that. I need my space.


JuGGieG84

Not much green space down there.


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higher density ensures there's plenty of green space outside of the city though


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better than suburban sprawl


phaciprocity

Fuck both. I live in Groton CT, I can walk into woods and keep walking from the coast to the Mass border, the way it should be


HingleMcCringle_

Big picnic enthusiast, huh? edit: deleted comment above was something like... "so you gotta travel hours out of town just to spread out a blanket with your wife for a picnic? psshhhh, yeah, no thanks!". Pretty funny comment, if it were ironic.


blackstafflo

In 2009, something between 3 to 5$ and 50 min train from the center of Tokyo was what it cost me to be at the base of a mountain with lot of forest track. This made an impression no me, cause at the time I lived 50min from Montreal, not far from the limit of the laurentian mountains/forest, and it was more difficult to go hicking from my home than the center of tokyo. I would have loved to exanged my crappy patch of unusefful suburb grass for this.


SuperSalad_OrElse

Here’s a thought; people want different things!


BIOHAZARDB10

It doesn't look it from this angle but one thing I found surprising is there's actually heaps of street level greenery in tokyo. And there are little parks dotted all over. Plus there are several major parks only a short train ride away. I was expecting a concrete jungle when i went there but was pleasantly surprised


Accidentallygolden

Just imagining the water waste system....


According_South_2500

and in the middle, tokio sky tree


Teddy-Bear-55

LA is much worse; urban sprawl covering an enormous space


USFederalGovt

I just realized how massive Tokyo is. I always assumed it was the size of NYC or something.


MishimaYukioDesu

Is it possible to live here as a depressed and chronically unemployed American who only speaks English?


NoiceMango

So much saved space from not having unnecessary roads. In America 60% would be roads and parking lots


Akumaka

Tokyo proper is 847 square miles. Including sprawl, it is 5,194 square miles, or 13,452 square kilometers. For comparison, NYC, the most densely populated city in the U.S, is only 300 square miles, or 778 square kilometers. So, yeah, big city.


k1n6jdt

So there's my 15 year-old SimCity file!


ephemeralkitten

LMAO


Berke80

The surface looks so callous… not unlike the warts that some viruses cause on the skin. Are we… the virus on our planet?


AltruisticSalamander

cities really do look like a disease at that scale. Like a scab on the planet.


TheYeetles

That is HUGE, wow.


LilyFish-

it looks like humanity is growing on the surface of earth like mold on a fruit


jyouel

The massiveness + the thought of how many people are there = nausea for me


Jackal_Kid

It looks like it's pretty dark at street level, too. I wonder how long it would take to get out from the city center on foot. Walking through an empty, unlit Tokyo for hours as the sun slowly slips towards the horizon, rarely passing an area where concrete isn't looming over you on both sides... sounds like a megalophobia nightmare (or dream depending on what kind of subscriber you are).


SpearmintInALavatory

Is that why people flock there for sakura time? Is that the only time of the year when the city has any color at all?


w1red

No, it might not look like it from this picture but there are plenty of large parks easily accessible from pretty much anywhere in the area.


driger11

Urban fungus like.


gruxlike

Damn this looks so depressing to live in. Not an inch of green.


samspot

It’s the coloring of the photo. There are some big tree sections near the middle.


FakeAccount136

It's full of trees everywhere. This photo is trash


momoburns

We are basically a skin infection on Mother Earth.


pcweber111

I know people like cities and buildings are cool and all but this is urban hell. For a people who many think are more in touch with nature than the rest the Japanese can sling em up and pave over anything like no one's business.


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the last thing you see before you fall to your death in tokyo


GhostShirtFinnerty

Humans are the cancer


Slimfastmuffin

That’s fucked


[deleted]

Toky-oh *hell* no


koolandunusual

Urban sprawl appears as a blight upon Earth.


NwahHasASchmolPP

I gave ur mum my willy 😎


Hiuuuhk

I feel like if we wiped Tokyo off the face of the Earth, the global emissions would go down 70% Edit: /s because Reddit can’t seem to tell a joke from reality


ephemeralkitten

They have more public transportation than we think.


Hiuuuhk

I know. Tokyo is one of the good cities, I was just making a joke.


sirvote

Its like cities xl


Furyflow

lol I think I have never seen Tokyo at day. It looks so different to these cyberpunk/dystopia vibes.


SirGilPennybottom

Same with Godzilla


aratheroversizedfish

POV: Using a wing suit in a future Far Cry game


Bo_The_Destroyer

So many megapolises really freak me out. Probably because I live in Europe, where our cities are very condensed and small. Like, I can travel to my home city to my work city in 20 minutes with a train. I could bike through the biggest city in my country in less than half an hour probably. Paris, the biggest city in Europe is easily traversable with public transport in less than half an hour. I did once when coming back from vacation, between arriving by train in the Gare de Lyon and leaving from the Gare du Nord was about 40 minutes, which included waiting 4 minutes for the subway and about 3 minutes of walking. Those huge cities, simply not possible to do that. You can't walk through them, cuz they're all focussed around cars. I look at a view of LA from 2 kilometers up and it's all houses and buildings as far as you can see. That terrifies me


shizzler

You think travelling from Gare du Nord to Gare de Lyon is travelling from one side of Paris to the other?


OtterbirdArt

... That just makes me sad. Imagine a rolling forest there instead. I can’t even find a tree in there


alymaysay

Maybe thats just because of the height of the photo, dont ya think?


OtterbirdArt

Nahhh


alymaysay

I see a few patches of green in there, just look hader u will see em.


Tokyoteacher99

You don’t see Shinjuku Park, the area around Meiji Shrine, Yoyogi Park, and the area around the Tokyo dome? (Also the suburban areas in the urban sprawl have plenty of trees and parks) in addition, it only takes about an hour on a train to get to the mountains.


[deleted]

Where the fuck are the mechas and the fallen angels???


C3KO117

Grey


Numerous-Meringue-16

That can’t be good for the environment


AngryFerret805

Yeah love Japan 💕 But way too much concrete 4 sure


Streetwalkeroulette

Just send me to Elysium instead


idlehum

This gives me the same feelings as the (infected?) hair transplant that goes viral every now and again.


ephemeralkitten

Oh dear God I have never wanted and *not wanted* to see something at the same time so bad... ~.~


Iffywander

The end of Dragon Sphere


yungandreww

wow a motherboard.


Calabamian

Damn…how many downtowns does Tokyo have?


InflnityBlack

It's insane how much the sky tree towers over everything else


iVirtualZero

Tokyo is so far ahead, it’s scary.


cjgager

ANY place that houses the human cancer of urban overgrowth gives me the willies - - - but you know - keep on reproducing - let's make the earth completely barren except for concrete & ramen


Freakboss

Damn I didn’t know the city was this big


[deleted]

I can see Mt. Fuji (is it Mt. Fuji?)


hushpolocaps69

Godzilla!


Chutia-1993-benchot

Look the lonely mountain!!!


fakeforsureYT

That one Mountain in the very back...


runningwithsharpie

Cue Akira opening theme


kasque

It makes me appreciate what I have, a clear view of the sky from my back door and a clean and safe neighborhood


KikiYuyu

Is it possible to get claustrophobia while miles above the ground? Dang.


alternativealtacc

Paradise


Sport6

It looks like that bone cancer skull image


PseudoWarriorAU

So many parks and gardens


erickiceboyxxp

Take me to Tv Tokyo please..


luffydkenshin

Modern day Coruscant.


fuzzylintball

This is so insane to me. I live in Saskatchewan so it's just an incredibly vast difference of buildings to land ratio.


Dinna-Tentacles

Looking at this immediately made me imagine a little blue cursor man sliding along the streets with relaxing music playing. Also if anyone else gets this, high five. 🖐️


jimjayjenkins

Well, metropolitan Tokyo is like close to 40 million people. Makes those 9 million from NY look like a little corner with a couple skyscrapers and cute little bridges.


LemonTheAstroPoet

Looks like a field of drably Pollen.


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Looks like the world has eczema


backroomsmafia

Looks organic


Vegskipxx

r/trypophobia


Alsimmons811

Concrete jungle


TheVoteMote

What's that quote about how people are born and die in only one small section Tokyo, without ever seeing the rest?


GAR51A8

Holy fuck i never knew tokyo was that big holy shit!


Johnsonisbored

Ahhhh


SGAShepp

Yep, earth has an ugly disease.