Tokyo isn’t even some platonic ideal to me. It just reminds me of what a shot in the arm exploring cities used to be. Finding weird hole in the wall eateries with strange advertising, or a bookstore that is always broke but still bringing in weird dog eared items.
And that shit gets stamped out because private equity property owners want to maximize their overcommitments and not allowing people to build weird shit that just looks dope as hell.
Even our old fast food restaurants were purpose built for their owners, not made into boxes that could be a kfc/tacobell/arbys/mcdonalds/starbucks/bank/enterprise rentals/organ harvest hut
