Conversation I’ve had three times in San Francisco: “Where are you coming in from?” “Tokyo.” “Oh I just got back from Tokyo. Was there for two weeks!” “Cool!” “Yeah it’s such a beautiful city and the [trains/food/etc]” “I like that too!” “So how long were you there for?”
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Also, at least in the software/tech world peer set, salaries go in only one direction but Tokyo stays practically the same price, so popping by for a week or two is less "Trip of a lifetime" and more "A bit of a nice thing to do this month."
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Plus air travel got a lot cheaper and with more direct flights
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Smartphones and much easier intl roaming make visiting japan 10x easier. Which is kind of a bummer because you miss the “well shit I am totally screwed unless I find a way to communicate with this person” moments that make travel so hard/special/serendipitous
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It’s amazing how much easier navigation and communication is (for a foreigner with basic Japanese) now vs when I lived in Tokyo in the late 80s. Smartphones / internet are clearly implicated, but I was shocked to see social changes, too, 1990 vs 2015ish
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far less crime than many major cities too. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Tokyo https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/London
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The work to ready the city for the Olympics made everything far easier for tourists who don't speak Japanese.
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