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A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan's 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.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Places & peoples: general & pictorial works

• Full title: Tokyo Commute
• Subtitle: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line
• Author: A. Robert Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781898823063
• ID: 05020423
• Publisher: Global Books
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 136 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2011

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