Tokyo: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours
Introduction
Tokyo is a marvelous mix of modern living and old-fashioned manners, slick high-tech gadgets and cutesy cartoon mascots. It's terribly crowded, yet can be strangely quiet. It's not a pretty city, not by conventional standards. Beauty comes in tiny packages here: You'll find it in bud vases, at dinner tables and on dessert plates. You'll find it also in the way superfast trains ease into stations, gently, precisely and on time. There is beauty in the shrines and stone lanterns and other traces of old Japan scattered among the skyscrapers, swanky shopping malls and sprawling mass transit hubs. The trick is to sample it all to do the serene garden and the massive office tower with a view. Here's how to see the loveliest and liveliest sides of Tokyo in one day.
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