Some cities are just high-resolution in ways that defy rational description: possessed of a level of detail and complexity that defines them as that city and that city only, not one of those unroofed shopping-mall no-places that seem to be a metastasized airport terminal.
I just came back from another one of those hi-rez places, and watching this video makes me remember why my favorite places in the world are so important to me.
Tokyo saturates the senses. This is my impression of the city's many personalities.
Narration:
A.D. Hope's "Tiger"
read by Tom O'Bedlam
(via Metafilter)