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Old Posted Apr 4, 2014, 4:08 AM
isaidso isaidso is offline
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Originally Posted by Metro-One View Post
You would actually dislike the majority of Japanese cities then. The vast majority of towers here are between 15 and 25 stories.
You conveniently chose to zero in on just one ingredient of a metropolis that is appealing to me and ignored the long list of others: extreme density, streets packed like sardines, massive extensive subway system, tons of large museums and galleries, many millions of residents, sensory overload of smells/noises/lights, and hundreds of other things.

So in your mind because Tokyo lacks one of these things, I won't like it? That makes zero sense.

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Originally Posted by Metro-One View Post
Even in Tokyo, arguably the world's largest urban centre, the tallest towers (excluding the two observation towers) are only around 250 meters. And that is a city of 35 million people.
It's also in the most active earthquake zone on the planet.
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