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Mr. Sato heads to the neighborhood of a famous TV drama and finds a nostalgic taste of a youth he never had.
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One of the gangsters reportedly admitted, “I have never met anyone as tough as those deliverymen.”
Incongruous in their grey surroundings, these multicoloured buildings looks like something in a children’s playground, or perhaps an outsized set of toy building blocks. But these colourful constructions are Reversible Destiny lofts—rental apartments in Tokyo’s Mikata City. And the inside of these eccentric properties is just as extraordinary and confusing as the exterior.
But what is “Reversible Destiny” anyway? And how is living in a playful apartment supposed to make you immortal? We sent a reporter from our Japanese sister site Pouch to find out.
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