this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
310 points (98.1% liked)

pics

19668 readers
377 users here now

Rules:

1.. Please mark original photos with [OC] in the title if you're the photographer

2..Pictures containing a politician from any country or planet are prohibited, this is a community voted on rule.

3.. Image must be a photograph, no AI or digital art.

4.. No NSFW/Cosplay/Spam/Trolling images.

5.. Be civil. No racism or bigotry.

Photo of the Week Rule(s):

1.. On Fridays, the most upvoted original, marked [OC], photo posted between Friday and Thursday will be the next week's banner and featured photo.

2.. The weekly photos will be saved for an end of the year run off.

Weeks 2023

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://mastodon.world/about

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
310
[OC] Tokyo by night (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrhenry77 to c/pics
 

photo taken from tokyo skytree

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BoilingTea 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever I see these types of pictures of major cities it always makes me wonder about the sheer governance necessary to make it all function. Can’t even fathom what it takes to run a city of 20+ million.

[–] mrhenry77 2 points 1 year ago

Especially in Tokyo it is quite impressive (subjectively, from European perspective):

  • Swimming pools and onsen on the top floors of large buildings
  • construction sites that seem to be worked on 24/7, it never seems to be empty
  • trains and public transport that arrives ON POINT
  • most people get along with each other very well
  • there is a larger “basic politeness”
  • it is safe