The best thing about Tokyo, from a foreigner’s point of view, is that people don’t stare at you on the subway. Having lived in Nagoya for over sixth months now and having faced a daily ordeal of being stared at by the local residents, it was a relief to find that a two hour Shinkansen ride would carry me up in to a much more liberal and tolerant world. So what did we do there? In brief, we rode the elevator to the top of the Mori Tower, walked around an exhibition of contemporary Indian art in the Mori Tower, toured the Tokyo National Museum and Senso-ji temple, shopped in Harajuku, listened to some bands in Shibuya, toured another museum, this time the Edo Tokyo Museum and eventually took a fairly romantic walk around the walls
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