In Japan, it’s all about finding an apartment that’s close to the station, and they don’t get any closer than this one outside downtown Tokyo.
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Hundreds of steps below the surface, and if you miss your train, you could be waiting on the dank, dungeon-like platform alone for four hours.
Japanese train stations get the self-proclaimed “vigilante” heroes they neither need, nor want.
Shibuya may not be the cleanest neighborhood in Tokyo, but even for this part of town, this is shocking.
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