Comments about tokyo

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Jethro: I think phil. Makati is a nice city too. I think the city, economically along with there tourist attractions, are benefitely doing good of representing for south east asia. The city looks very beautiful (uhmm.. except......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

elizabeth john: well just to add on, i ve been studying on this city as part of a college project... To me, tokyo has different faces to it.like it does have a huge number of parks, which seem......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

BZZZP: every local hub of tokyo makes times square cry sad little tears...

in response to: Tokyo by Ttokkyo

Ttokkyo: This is lovely. More photographs of {Tokyo} Please!...

in response to: Highways, Dusk, February by BZZZP

BARON VON FANCY: Baron Von Fancy is not a man, he is an idea. And you cannot kill an idea. He has been called an artist. He has been called a maniac. He is a recluse. He never......

in response to: Baron Von Fancy by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

MC: These are my top 15 1.Melbourne 2.New York 3.Sydney 4.Hong Kong 5.Tokyo 6.Las Angeles 7.Toronto 8.Boston 9.Las Vagas 10.Auckland 11.Dubia 12.Paris 13.Singapore 14.Brisbane 15.Perth ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

comia: 1.hongkong 2.new york 3.shanghai 4.dubai 5.manila 6.toronto 7.bangkok 8.kuala lumpur 9.los angeles 10.tokyo 11.chicago 12.seattle 13.beijing 14.panama 15.zhen shen that's manila skyline[[img:28792]] ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Sebastien: Tokyo is "as dirty as hell?" I must have missed that while living there for seven years and thinking everyday how amazingly spotless this city of 25 million could be. Seoul, on the......

in response to: Chungdahm by chiamattt

foosh: I am from Calgary Canada, You said it yourself that New York is the most recognized skyline in the world if it weren't then it wouldn't be so recognized as the most would it! so......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

dboy: Just to nit-pick ... By a fraction, Tokyo Midtown is the highest tower in central Tokyo and 4th highest in Japan. I was lucky enough to work there when it was finished last year, the......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

hinata: these pitures r cool and it lets u look in tokyo a little bit and see there city.... it must not be loud at night....

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

hinata: these pitures r cool and it lets u look in tokyo a little bit and see there city.... it must not be loud at night....

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

da man: wow ive never heard of brisbane before. it looks awesome and the setting is pretty. this just became one of my top 10 skylines. and i agree with ?!$@#, the 2IFC building in HK does......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

?!$@#: my top 15 1. Chicago 2. Sydney 3. Shanghai 4. New York 5. Makati 6. Tokyo 7. Hong Kong 8. San Francisco 9. Kuala Lampur 10. Seattle 11. Toronto 12. Philadelphia 13. Seoul 14. Boston 15. Singapore 7. ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

ahh a ghost: heres my list of the top 10! (im from the chicago-land area) First off, all you dallas-houston and toronto-montreal people fighting, shut the hell up. 1.Tokyo, Japan- to me, every picture i see of tokyo looks great.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Geethu: I never thought tokyo is something like this. Not very diffrent from a fully urbanized european city. Can't beleve anybody can live without visinity of lush green and rain drops. ...

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Clive: Awesome! An excellent slice of life...I'd love to go and teach English in Tokyo someday; hopefully I'll have enough funds amassed to do so within the next year or two. The lamp in front of......

in response to: Tabemasu / Nomimasu by serlingrod

eyeofodin: Amazing photographs. I have a friend teaching in Tokyo at the moment, but she never takes pictures and I have been dying to see street scenes such as these. So thank you for......

in response to: Tabemasu / Nomimasu by serlingrod

abel: LIPTON BUS! I saw that when I was in tokyo...

in response to: Harajuku by serlingrod

serlingrod: nah, I studied abroad in Tokyo last year and took a bazillion photos. I like to spread them out. What are you up to East Asia? ...

in response to: Harajuku by serlingrod

serlingrod: You can hardly find a $2 bill in America.....looks like Seoul is the place to get em. Here are some crane games I found in Tokyo (obviously took the pic cause of the name of......

in response to: Crane Game by chiamattt

chiamattt: Thanks adam. Testeez, I am a Torontonian that has been living and working Seoul, South Korea for the past five years. Every year or so I head to Osaka to get my Korean employment visa......

in response to: Osaka Part One by chiamattt

jeeff: {plane wing}! i swear i recognize the twisty river in photo #2 from my own flight from toronto to tokyo. doing it in winter made me wish i could be like survivorman and......

in response to: Alaska, From Above by Elicar

Elicar: Yes, it is ONLY 12 hours. And it is a looooong 12 hours. You can only watch so much movies and can only sleep so much in those cramped economy seats. On rare occasions, my......

in response to: Alaska, From Above by Elicar

serlingrod: I absolutely love this pictures. It looks like you can jump from one mountaintop to the next. I took a flight from Detriot to Tokyo that lasted 12 hours, so that sounds about right. I......

in response to: Alaska, From Above by Elicar

little ukraine: my oh my those are amazing, especially the second one. only 12 hours from toronto to tokyo? shorter than i expected....

in response to: Alaska, From Above by Elicar

Tony: I disagree with your top 5 ...certainly Shanghai, Tokyo , Seoul and Bangkok have denser more impressive skylines than Toronto and Dubai! Several other Asian cities may be better too...yes it's true...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jeeff: ah, great. this is one of my favourite places in tokyo. lots of good restaurants and hang-outs. i lived two stops east at asakusa....

in response to: Ameya Yokocho by serlingrod

Paolo: wonderful tokyo !...

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

serlingrod: my guess, sythero, is that foreigners purchase electronics from these stores to get their taxes returned when they leave. tokyo much like japan is a very homogenous place, but i did see alot of westerners......

in response to: Akihabara Electric Town by serlingrod

Adriel: Tokyo look so amazing I wish my country was developed as that...

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

CartLegger: I am so happy to be a part of a site on which so many urban studies folks are able to snap their works. As a high school teacher of urban planning (Urban Soc/GIS), CityNoise......

in response to: Shinjuku by serlingrod

serlingrod: I love these photos....they remind me of being in Tokyo at night. I really wish I could have made it to Seoul. ...

in response to: 07-07-05 by Chiamattt

jo L.: very informative . cant hardly wait for my Tokyo trip ....

in response to: Tokyo Rail by Chris Jongkind

dannigirl: woah! the photography is everlasting isnt it just? creating such an empty effect- which is exactly what you feel on the cold harsh streets of tokyo at night.. great work soldier! Xx...

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

jeeff: jp haze: note "virtually", but maybe that was overstating it a bit. the tokyo metropolitan region (including yokohama) covers 83.5% of the kanto plain. i've seen the edge of suburban sprawl toward the......

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

jack: it probably is, unless it's mcdowels from coming to america, but i marvel at how society has changed there in japan, as a child i remember when they were bombing tokyo, i sometimes wonder if......

in response to: Shimokitazawa by serlingrod

Chung: Those photos capture nothing special. You photographed Seoul like a low grade digital would for a street in Brooklyn. You didn't capture the high rises, the dichotomy of city and country, crowded streets......

in response to: Chungdahm by chiamattt

Cinic: Serlingrod: Where did you study in Tokyo? I would like to do the same for my last year in urbanplanning....

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

serlingrod: I studied abroad in Tokyo last year while wrapping up my urban studies undergrad. Jeff, do yourself the favor and start planning now to study there. For those interested in urban development within a global......

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

Jimi P. Haze: Hi, I've lived in 4 different cities in the "Kanto plain" region (mentioned in the excerpt from this website) for twenty years, and the following excerpt from the website is not true: "looking north across the suburbs......

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

serlingrod: seoul reminds me of tokyo, only dirtier. ...

in response to: Chungdahm by chiamattt

serlingrod: [[img:19656] Tokyo has to be my favorite. I studied abroad there last spring (came home one year ago yesterday actually. I got a similar shot of the skyline as in the OP....the amazing view from Odaiba.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Jeff: That is absoultly amazeing Tokyo is one of prettiest cities on the planet and i belive its the biggest with 34 million people i am considering going to tokyo next sring to study abroad since......

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

sarah: i love the scenery for tokyo, i wanna go there on a full moon and party, lol....

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Mark: The sound mirrors feature heavily in various projects by art / music / film group Disinformation - the "Antiphony" double CD (packaging features sound mirror photos by Julian Hills from 1996) and "Antiphony Video Supplement"......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

tec: yo that is tight like it show more skyline view of tokyo please and give an number where i can contact you i want to come to tokyo...

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

aer suzuki: very, very cool photos. tokyo is a city i'm always curious about, and probably will be until i get a chance to visit it myself, thanks for the post....

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

James: Yesterday I returned to my current home city of Shenzhen after a week's stay in Tokyo. Since we fly into Hong Kong airport, that means I passed through 3 of the top 15 cities in......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: Halifax, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Winnipeg... Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, St. Louis, Washington DC, Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas... Even Tokyo! Fredericton has passed them all! So many posts for such a small city. Amazing......

in response to: Untitled by Marlo

LWAMC: mofidious: give us upz and we'll give u worldwide upz! lincolnshire wolds alkali metal collective layin da cutz str8 from tokyo to horncastle to nyc, big it up one jah love massiv! for real!...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

jamie: Also: this reminded me of **[[1664:jeeff's post]] about {tokyo}'s {trains}** from a while back...

in response to: Tokyo Rail by Chris Jongkind

Tyfoid Kid: Really great pictures!! I feel like I've been there now. I've seen that first picture of the map of the subway system and it does make it look daunting but with the bi-lingual signs everywhere I'm......

in response to: Tokyo Rail by Chris Jongkind

EvilGentleman: Ironically, I have seen taller buildings in Iqaluit, Nunavut. And the buildings in Montreal were originally not allowed to be higher than Mount Royal (much like Halifax and the Citadel). Nowadays, the heights of the buildings......

in response to: Fredericton Skyscrapers by CE

Tamara: cerniagigante ~ that's such a nice thought! I knew that some persian carpets are representations of gardens, but I guess the next time I'm there I'll take advantage of sharing some secrets too. That shot......

in response to: Sacred and Little Altars by Tamara

johnintokyo: gah! i shoot all the time BUT those shots made me wanna grab my camera and run out the door. Truly amazing stuff. Did you print the B&W yourself? Where do you get your stuff......

in response to: Sacred and Little Altars by Tamara

jeeff: chiamattt - no. i tried to hang around a few other days, but i didn't catch anyone. usually i just left and continued on to work. obviously it's hard to loiter around......

in response to: Plastic Eggs by jeeff

chiamattt: A really cool Moto I saw in Tokyo were the delivery ones. They had springs on the food container holder so that your food didn't get all mangled on the drive to your apartment. They......

in response to: J Vehicles by jeeff

Tyfoid Kid: I heard on NPR about 2 months ago that Oslo is the most expensive city to live in in the world (no longer Tokyo.) When you live somewhere where a cup of coffee is......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

jeeff: actually that front one's just a roadwork sign - "caution, [infrastructure?] work, 40m from here, until feb 28th, tokyo [whatever agency] blah blah blah, telephone number" (please, anyone feel free to fill in my crappy......

in response to: Tidy by elaine

BAHADIR: If we want to see a metropolitan city that is full of buildings, we must visit tokyo.But if you want to see a metropolitan city thats with nature we must to visit Istanbul.Tokyo has a......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

adam: i was looking at hotel rooms in tokyo and all the descriptions said "small and clean"...

in response to: Practical Japanese by Chris Jongkind

jeeff: oh, how i miss tokyo....

in response to: tokyo waterways (the arteries) by jeeff

trika: that is so pretty i wish i can go and vist tokyo some day i would really have to vist the waterways they are so beautiful...

in response to: tokyo waterways (the arteries) by jeeff

Metoo: The eiffel tower is not in a quake zone like tokyo is....

in response to: tokyo tower by jeeff

Charles: This is tokyo I know and the picture I mad but couldnt made that nice... Shibya 109, streets by night its just missing kids playing basball in empty streets by night;) thanks...

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

jeeff: the thing that sets tokyo apart from others is its sheer size and density. tokyo's population density is 3x higher than new york city. any one of these photos shows only a tiny......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

jack: im amazed at how the japanese are able to copy the worlds great structures and recreate it in their city. shinjuku could be new york city. sunset on tokyo tower could be paris......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Jamie: [[img:7537]] i particularly like the view of the seemingly endless urban sprawl you get in this photo. it certainly does look a lot like LA to my mind and totally not what i imagine tokyo to......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Hobart: Nice photos. Aside from the language on the signs, these photos could just as easily be of {Paris}, {New York} or {London}. I wouldn't mind seeing more from {Tokyo}....

in response to: Tokyo Neon by Chris Jongkind

tenyen: At the same time as I was just gawping at ##after## the metaverse presented me with this: [[http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm]] which messes with my head in a different way than: [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ioerror/74471872/]] tenyen - [[http://yen.spc.org]]...

in response to: canalside gasworks by elaine

Chad: I live in Tokyo and am obsessed with the size, variation and complexity of the city. I have seen pretty much everything you guys have photographed with my own eyes. Still, everytime I......

in response to: City and Country by ian

colavito's ghost: Manchester = Tokyo...

in response to: Manchester Lights B by Myke

jeeff: tokyo photo [[img:6361]] {synchronicity}...

in response to: N.Y.C photo. by barry

jeeff: agreed. yeah, get your friend to post! i want more tokyo photos!...

in response to: Neck Face in Shibuya Tokyo by Sarah Clement

Peter: jeeff: a friend of mine just returned from a trip to tokyo, and gave almost the exact same explanation of {shibuya}/{harajuku} when we were discussing his travels the other day. im trying to get him......

in response to: Neck Face in Shibuya Tokyo by Sarah Clement

jeeff: i don't know about other places, but shibuya is about the only part of tokyo that has a lot of graffiti (shinjuku has some too, but mostly older it seems). shibuya is the most......

in response to: Neck Face in Shibuya Tokyo by Sarah Clement

jeeff: very cool. it reminds me of the front of the __national museum of emerging science and innovation__ in tokyo at night. too bad i don't have any good photos to show what i......

in response to: Hayden Planetarium by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: also [[http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/e/janken_e.html]] for the terminally interested...

in response to: scissor paper stone by elaine

jeeff: i just noticed peter's long comment up there that i missed before. good to hear a new yorker's perspective on these things. as someone from outside new york, i have a different perspective.......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

jeeff: there was a nice flowery sign at the entrance to a sauna near my house in tokyo that said "foreigners please refrain from entering". too bad i never got a pic of it....

in response to: urban transgressions and taboos by elaine

jeeff: that reminds me, [[1204:my room in tokyo]] cost $537.95 USD/mth....

in response to: how much living space does 300 a month get you in the city? by vz

elaine: it was just as well einstein had such a great big head - he had a great big brain to fit in it. i love the telly too, i bought it for an art installation......

in response to: stir crazy by elaine

sergio : tokyo is cool i love to drift and the nights are beautifull i just love japan sincearly japan drifth club ...

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

Marilyn-TIHM: said...Tokyo Garden, Snoqualmie Pass, and lots of laughs. From SeaTac to JFK...making moves that last. what up OZERO. ...

in response to: Graf Trux 8: NYC by Peter

jeeff: it's true, the giant billboards have a way of bringing the city in closer. you don't realize just how massive the signs really are. as for my uncle, what can i say. ......

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

jeeff: i wasn't able to visit hokkaido. i was on a tight budget while i lived in japan. but i managed to see some areas near tokyo. enoshima, kamakura, nikko, chiba, saitama and......

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

Heather Parker: were u just in tokyo or did u see other cities? i want to go to sapporo/hokkaido during winter very much. ...

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

jeeff: thanks. cartwrch - like peter said. or [[http://images.google.com/images?q=tokyo+subway+map&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images]]. ...

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

Peter: a good start would be [[goo:tokyo subway map]] otherwise, check [[http://www.bento.com/subtop5.html]] unless {jeeff} knows of a better resource :)...

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

Peter: well said. jeeff has a good eye. i could put it like this: whenever i see his {tokyo} photos, i always feel like im in the shot... standing behind someone on the platform, going down......

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

piranha erem: these photographs are the coolest things ive seen all day. it makes one dreamy, imaginging one's self in some daydream adventure in tokyo's immense underground. so urban, so similar to the west yet so different......

in response to: tokyo trains by jeeff

jeeff: in tokyo the only clear day was the day after a typhoon. all the rain pelting down makes the dust & pollution settle to the ground. everything looks almost technicolor. same in......

in response to: Seoul from hotel window by Trace

jeeff: nice. my towel fell off the line once while i lived in tokyo. it fell down a crevasse between two buildings and i never got it back. pissed me off. but......

in response to: Parking Lot in the Heights by Laura

BZZZP: it's facing south, actually, from a ways up in lic/astoria... those lights you see at the bottom are the queensboro plaza NW/7 platforms. speaking of neo-tokyo/akira scenes, the poulaski bridge between queens and bklyn is excellent......

in response to: Crescent Street, night by BZZZP

jeeff: what's the building at the end of the street? scenes like this always remind me of akira, where the camera pans out across the neo-tokyo skyline rising up out of the old city....

in response to: Crescent Street, night by BZZZP

jeeff: i also got in trouble for photographing a bowling alley in tokyo that happened to be beside a ##koban## (police box). a cop came out and asked, "where you from?" and made me delete......

in response to: Ghost Rider on the Train by GGP

jeeff: it's funny, when the promo posters came out for that movie, ##the day after tomorrow##, they put the one with the eiffel tower up all over tokyo. everyone in japan just assumed it was......

in response to: tokyo tower by jeeff

jeeff: here's a photo from my tokyo guidebook (##let's go tokyo## - highly recommended to travellers!). it shows the plane suspended in the middle. [[img:2419]] ...

in response to: big architecture by jeeff

jeeff: check out [[http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm]]. the electrical system in eastern japan (including tokyo) is compatible with canada and the states, as long as you don't have anything with a 3rd prong. when i went, i......

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff