One of the weirdest things to me in Tokyo was how multistory it is. This combined with how packed in it is and it’s like a maze.
Like, every building had escalators, and there’d be 5-6 businesses you could access at pretty much every storefront. So like, ground floor could be an electronics store, next up an anime depot, next up a burger king, next up a maid cafe:
Conversely in someplace like NYC, you either have one store on the ground level and the rest is offices/professional services (doctors etc). You wouldn’t see a 5 story building with 5 different businesses:
This is why pictures of Tokyo look so busy: you’ve got 5 businesses (look at the first photo closely and you can see the floor numbers).
