JapanNewbie

Get Lost.

Posted on 18. Jun, 2002 @ 10:35 am by harvey in Culture Views: 55

Ah, so you have arrived in Tokyo and are ready to get going huh? Good!

If you’re looking to get lost, you have come to the right place.

Tokyo is a ridiculously large city with more lost people at any one time than entire population of Iowa. There are many opportunities to get lost in Tokyo. You can get lost while walking to the train station, you can get lost while in the train station, you can get lost while trying to find your destination, and also while trying to find your friends. If you’re lucky, you can also manage to get lost while trying to find your way back to the train station.

Once you get into your own neighborhood, hopefully you’ll have an address of where you live. It should look something like this.

321-33 nanntoka nani-shi Tokyo Japan 111-1111

This address should help know where you’re supposed to be going. In order to find the place, you might be able to find maps in your neighborhood to help you out.

Oh good! Here’s one now!

Taking a closer look at these maps will reveal a wonderfully easy to follow numbering system.

There you have it! As you can plainly see, house number 685-248 is logically located between 685-80, 685-90, and 685-88. Across the street you’ll find 685-238. In case you can’t follow the numbering system (apparently Japanese homes are numbered in the order that they were built) you can also look at the names of the families living in the homes… to… help you… uh… find the house… yeah…

Also if you notice on the map there are no street names. That’s no image editing trick. There are no street names. Heh.

All this is how you get lost on foot. Someday I’ll put up a subway map, or a JR map, or show picture of the inside of a trainstation… then you’ll really feel the pain of the �������s�@�i�ق��������񂿁B�j

Until then.

-Harvey