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Skyscraper of Broad Daylight

If I’m to avoid succumbing to  jet lag, I should get out of the hotel room and move around. Having gotten up at three a.m. and finished, more or less, with my work for the day, I decide to take the afternoon off. So far, I’ve spent my drowsy evenings in an uncommonly relaxed Tokyo (it being Golden Week) shopping for eyeglasses for my wife, in Shinjuku, and pajamas for my kids, in Ginza. Today, though, I have for myself. It’s a straight shot on the Tozai Line from Iidabashi to Nakano and gets there in 22 minutes, so why not? 

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Tokyo Interlude

Now for an oddly timed Tokyo interlude. So far, guy taking phone pics of weeds growing out of the sidewalk; mousy girl in glasses confidently rocking sweatshirt emblazoned with "I AM BABE"; oroshi soba with draft beer; crowds strolling by on a soft spring day in Kagurazaka.

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