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Tokyo Escorts: Houston Chronicle Ken Hoffman column

Jan 12, 2012 (Houston Chronicle – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
Hiroma, my translator and tour guide in Tokyo, asked, “Is there anything special you’d like to see or do?”

The Dome is where the Tokyo Giants baseball team plays. Baseball season is over in Japan but the gift shop was open. Some things are the same everywhere. I bought a Hiroshima Carp jersey, only because Carp is funnier than Giants.
I went to the Tokyo Auto Show, where they had prototypes of tiny nonpolluting autos than make the Smart Car look like a Hummer.

My favorite place in Tokyo was the intersection at Hachiko Square. It’s the busiest pedestrian street crossing in the world. They call it “the Scramble.” More than 2.5 million people cross the street outside the train station at Hachiko Square each day. During one red light, there can be 10,000 people scrambling across the street. The first Starbucks in Japan is on the northwest corner.

See the full article from “Middle East North Africa Financial Network”

~ by client-9 on January 12, 2012.

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