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Global Books Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs And Way Of Life - Viewed From The Odakyu Line. by Cp Renaissance Books
A unique take on modern life in Tokyo Japans 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.show more