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A unique take on modern life in Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, every day 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 line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9781898823063 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1898823065 |
| Weight | 2.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.38 x 0.63 x 8.38 In |
| List Price | $27.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 214 pages |
| Publisher | Renaissance Books |
| Published On | 2011-04-01 |
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