ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 5月30日 03時20分

Photo by @dguttenfelder | words by @neilshea13 — You can go up a little higher. There’s a roof deck above, with room for a helicopter, plenty of sunshine, a breeze to whisper through your hair. But the view won’t change: in all directions this city flows to the horizon, except where its ambition breaks against the sea. Tokyo is the world’s largest city. It’s the largest city the world has ever known. And while you understand this as fact—it’s countable, measurable, easy to get lost in—superlatives never capture beauty. They don’t tell how a thing survives and evolves, where it frays and heals or fails to. So we’re walking across this city. Ward by ward, hood by hood, for an upcoming story in Nat Geo magazine. We’re looking for the knots that draw 38 million stories together into the human epic called Tokyo. Edward Glaeser wrote that cities are proximity, density, the removal of space between businesses and people. Yes, and. Tokyo is the brown-and-white pony we met on the sidewalk this morning, eating a carrot from a cardboard box. It’s legends of samurai and print-makers, alongside the hidden stories of brothel girls whose ashes lie in a temple near the city center. It’s the little monument honoring the souls of fish who become sushi, and it’s the old fishmonger families who work next door. A city is a story we tell ourselves, each day a different version. So we’re walking. Join us here for more as we go.

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