Apud necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>MHO is exactly the opposite. No city offers more excitement in a relatively
>safe environment than Tokyo. You can live here for a decade and leave vast
>swathes of Tokyo completely untouched, waiting to be explored. Museums,
>shopping, night life, traditional arts and sports, concerts (everything from
>small harpsichord recitals to Van Halen). You also are much less likely to
>be treated like a complete outcast than you are in more rural areas of the
>country. And nothing could be easier than taking weekend trips out of the
>city to explore the rest of the country. 

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I agree, although there was a time when I avoided Tokyo like the plague.
It wasn't until I lived there and experienced (some of) its wide
varieties, and explored a few of the urban villages that found I really
liked it.

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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