I’m surprised at how many Asian people there are in Tokyo. I don’t mean to sound fatuous, but having lived so long in a mongrelized town like San Francisco, where the ruling ethnicity is “weirdo”, I thought a town as cosmopolitan as Tokyo would be more mixed.
Nope. I'm the only white guy I've seen in my hood. It's called Meguro, it's in the Tokyo prefecture, a little south of Shinjuku and Shibuya, two major shopping hubs. Narrow, winding, unmarked/unnamed streets make navigation difficult. After a cab driver took an hour to find my apartment, I tied some white baggie-ties to the branches of some trees so I'd find my way back.
I decided the first day or so would be well invested in learning the subway system. Dan Brown could write a Da Vinci Code sequel just based on that.
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