Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line
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A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, everyday to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line: the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and colour illustrations, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a "map" of Shinjuku as key station and gathering place, a run of notable Tokyo locations--from the national bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple-complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time, visitors, and even regular commuters.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1898823065
ISBN13:9781898823063
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Renaissance Books
Length:214 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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