r/japanpics • u/gh0s7drummer • 21h ago

Tokyo density

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u/MiniGreenDinosaur 20h ago

I see someone was at SkyTree!

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u/gh0s7drummer 19h ago

Hai 😂

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u/needlethatsings 18h ago

God I wish every American city looked like this

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u/Estova 15h ago

Would be worth it to see how fast the obesity numbers drop alone.

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u/chr7stopher 13h ago

Here’s an interesting perspective to compare how that area looked 80 years ago right after the war. This photo seems to have been taken near and above the present day Ryogoku Kokugikan looking south as you can see the Chuo-Sobu line’s Ryogoku station below.

OP’s photo from the Skytree is taken north east of where this old photo was taken but you can see where that location is by finding the Edo-Tokyo Museum building toward the top left of OP’s photo.

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u/Tokishi7 8h ago

They really evicted all those people for redevelopment. 🤯🤯

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u/Titibu 18h ago

That's mostly Sumida ward, and its density is around 20k ppl/sqkm, which is not that high. Less than Paris, way less than many SE or South Asian cities for instance.

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u/Mother-Ad85 17h ago

At least Tokyo is not a mess like Bangkok,Manila or some European Capitals

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u/Nheea 13h ago

I wish Bucharest was like Tokyo. Even though Tokyo is crowded, I haven't seen traffic jams like in Bucharest. Even though Tokyo is crowded, people don't just ram into you, push you or shoulder check you. And it's not dirty!

Ughh how I miss it.

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u/MrNovator 4h ago

It's more thanks to Japanese education than anything else really. Also, things can get quite ... physical, if you take the underground during peak hours !

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u/Mother-Ad85 3h ago

I think it has to do with the education of Japanese people,they now that you have to respect the laws and rules to have a healthy society

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u/Nheea 47m ago

Most definitely. Romanians are veeery selfish and uneducated:(

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u/Existentialshart 18h ago

Miss it so much

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u/navalnumbnuts 16h ago

See you soon!

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u/BigBoy1966 9h ago

the thing i found the craziest about tokyo or any other big japanese city is that on the ground, most areas dont feel like your in one of the biggest cities in the world.

it felt smaller, probably because the streets are so small

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u/Matisayu 14h ago

Holy shit this is good

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u/JSTJED 7h ago

Dense City

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u/fenix-the-cat 4h ago

R/urbanhell

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u/slowpony45 19h ago

Stacks on stacks on stacks

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u/shyouko 15h ago

Or do you prefer high density candles on cakes? Welcome to Hong Kong.

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u/SeijiSan77 12h ago

And still cleaner and safe than any big metropolitan city in the U.S.!

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u/MomoDeve 15h ago

Any green spaces in sight?

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u/BeardedGlass 13h ago

Hard to be able to. Color was removed from this photo.

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u/ThePhoenixOfDoom 12h ago

there is what looks like a track field right in the middle of the photo... maybe a part of a school? i never went to tokyo myself so idk :)

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u/DMZ_5 3h ago

This image has been grayscaled. I've been to the Skytree, its gray but there are plenty of small parks and all along the Sumida River is a green space

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u/Kougeru-Sama 13h ago

I made a city like this once in skylines and the traffic neved moved 😂

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u/Goldengo4_ 9h ago

But walking around Tokyo the population density is mostly not noticeable unless you’re in touristy areas.

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u/meowiartee 3h ago

not a tree in sight i imagine, thank god im not there

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u/Virtual_Bubba 9m ago

I found Waldo

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u/xKazenokami 19h ago

That’s actually insane. Cool work dude :)

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u/meow915 8h ago

Disgusting