Seoul`s transportation infrastructure is pretty good but Tokyo`s is on another level. All kinds of trains - subway, commuter, shinkansen and so many lines. Way more than Seoul. Tokyo`s subway is even more massive and confusing than Seoul`s on the map. Both are concrete jungles but Tokyo manages to put more green space into the CBD area. You can have lunch and then take a stroll in a park. Both do have satellite cities that feed commuters in and out at peak times.
It also has spittle all over the place though as well as cigarette butts everywhere. Japanese people on the other hand are quite fastidious about cleanliness.
It also has spittle all over the place though as well as cigarette butts everywhere. Japanese people on the other hand are quite fastidious about cleanliness.
Really? When I lived in Osaka I saw a level of litter comparable to America, and the farmers near my in-laws' house chuck their empty soda and energy-drink bottles all over the place. Tokyo may have been a little cleaner but I didn't look closely.
Really? When I lived in Osaka I saw a level of litter comparable to America
In other words, it's pretty clean? I'm not a proud American by any means, but I think Americans litter very little; less than most other nationalities I've seen (with the exception of the Scandinavians, Germans, and Dutch).
Really? When I lived in Osaka I saw a level of litter comparable to America
In other words, it's pretty clean? I'm not a proud American by any means, but I think Americans litter very little; less than most other nationalities I've seen (with the exception of the Scandinavians, Germans, and Dutch).
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject:
Xuanzang wrote:
Seoul`s transportation infrastructure is pretty good but Tokyo`s is on another level. All kinds of trains - subway, commuter, shinkansen and so many lines. Way more than Seoul. Tokyo`s subway is even more massive and confusing than Seoul`s on the map. Both are concrete jungles but Tokyo manages to put more green space into the CBD area. You can have lunch and then take a stroll in a park. Both do have satellite cities that feed commuters in and out at peak times.
Add in the MUCH larger variety of restaurants and international food in Japan. Korea simply doesn't come close to the variety Japan offers.
It also has spittle all over the place though as well as cigarette butts everywhere. Japanese people on the other hand are quite fastidious about cleanliness.
Really? When I lived in Osaka I saw a level of litter comparable to America, and the farmers near my in-laws' house chuck their empty soda and energy-drink bottles all over the place. Tokyo may have been a little cleaner but I didn't look closely.
I have to call BS on this - I've photographed all over Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka, including side streets - did not ever see anything like you describe - even wrote at length as to my opinion as to why the Japanese seemed so obsessed w/cleanliness and fear of littering which was forwarded to a Buddist society.
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