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life in Tokyo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I've noticed a thing or two about Tokyo. Like Toronto, many of its people seem to live to work, putting in insanely long hours. When I caught a ~17:10 train this evening, it was half-empty. But the time I was most of the way 'home' at 17:30, it was quite full (by the standards of other subway-enabled cities I've worked in - namely Toronto and Sydney). But it was not as full as the trains I observed between 20:00 and 21:00 as I ate a (blisteringly hot) Nepalese dish at a place next to the highway. But unlike Toronto's unhappy post-office drone march home, Tokyonians head to the restaurants and bars after work.

And there are a lot of restaurants and bars! A pub crawl could be had on any given block of an ally in this city, so dense are the establishments.

That's it for now. These "late night" / jetlagged posts are killing me.