You know how being from a place colors your perspective of a place? A few years ago I asked friends who were not American and had lived in Tokyo, Dehli and London before moving to NYC if NYC was really odd or if it's a big city thing and they unequivocally were like no we see real weird shit here.
Because internet: this is not me saying any of the above cities is worse. I havent even been to Tokyo. It was an honest question posed to friends. And the best city in the world is the one you enjoy living in 😘
Having lived in Tokyo nearly half my life now, NYC is *far* weirder, and the wild part is how that weirdness is just Out There On The Streets and everyone just rolls with it.
Tokyo's weirdness is structured and sanitized, NYC's weirdness is 100% chaos magic that cannot be replicated.
Tokyo: you can pay a company to take you on a quasi-legal street kart tour wearing dingy Pokemon onesies
NYC: you can watch dueling buskers fight not 30 feet from a tourist trying to propose to his girlfriend in front of a dude in a ripoff Transformers costume who will demand $10 for the photo
Side note because Maricar mentioned, I did that kart tour in Osaka and it was honestly THE most fun shit ever. I took my 70 y/o Dad and he loved it too 🥰 Great way to see the city, 10/10 recommend!
Incorrect - they are menaces to public safety and one day a dumbass gopro-wielding martyr will rise and get himself seriously injured so the government steps in, as they should have over a decade ago.
"martyr", lmao. They're travelling at the speed limit and adhering to road rules. There was never a point it was unsupervised either. If it was the "menace to public safety" you claim, it would have been shut down by now.
In Tokyo they are largely unqualified to be on the road and regularly get into accidents. We will not miss them when the company fucks around again and gets shut down permanently.
