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5. You find rice paddies in the unlikeliest places-Roppongi Hills Rooftop Garden
Nestled incongruously among Tokyo’s skyscrapers, the tiny Roppongi Hills Rooftop Garden rice paddy is part of the Keyakizaka Complex.
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4. Street crossings are like a battle scene from ‘Braveheart’-Shibuya crossing
4. Street crossings are like a battle scene from ‘Braveheart’
The scramble street crossing outside of Shibuya station is easily the world’s busiest, with a thousand people running into the middle of the street, weaving together in a huge organic mass.
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3. Depachika
You could spend hours drooling over the elaborate pastries and picture-perfect sushi rolls at Istean’s recently refurbished, super-stylish depachika (デパ地下).
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2. The most beautiful place you’ll never visit-Tokyo Imperial Palace
The Imperial Residence sits on three and a half square kilometers of greenery that were once valued at more than all of the real estate in California.
1. The world’s most sophisticated railways
With 13 subway lines and over 100 surface routes run by Japan Railways and other private companies, Tokyo’s railway system seems like it was designed to win world records. Read the rest of this entry »