We head in Streets & Squares this time to Tokyo, the capital of Japan. A very challenging place to do what we have done so far with other cities around the world! Partly because of the language of course, but also because it is hard to find the streets signs on the corners, or street names à la Google on the streets!
Still, the challenge is accepted, and as always in Streets & Squares, clicking on the address links leads you to Google Maps, and clicking on the names to the person’s Wikipedia page. And this time we don’t go only for the eponymous streets, but any streets, squares and parks really, all in order to learn some Japanese along the way. The aim here is to make Tokyo a bit more understandable and accessible to you even if you never actually went there.
A few words in Japanese:
chikatetsu (subway)
ki 木 (tree)
kōen 公園 (park)
tōri/-dōri 通り(street)
Takeshita Street (竹下通り, Takeshita-dōri) is a pedestrian shopping street
Yoyogi Park (Yoyogi kōen) 代々木公園 (Shibuya) - Wiki