What an incredibly huge and sprawling city Tokyo is! We were here for two days between the end of our ski trip and our flight back home and, from our base in a Ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) near the University, spent the time exploring just a tiny fraction of this enigmatic metropolis with my brother and his family as our guides.
Tokyo is a city of modern and stylish architecture, an urbanised ocean yet with a feeling of space, with its open places and green islands of park land. It also has arguably the most efficient metro system in the world. This is a place where people wear masks when ill to avoid sharing their germs with you, where everyone stops at pedestrian lights, and where it took over a day to find a decent size piece of litter in the street. Footpaths have slotted tracks to aid the blind pedestrian, yet the homeless men are politely shunted out of view - it is an enigmatic culture.