<story><title>Why Tokyo Works</title><url>https://metropolisjapan.com/why-tokyo-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raziel414</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an American living in Tokyo, and it easily has the best quality of life out any city I&amp;#x27;ve lived in.&lt;p&gt;- The public transit is literally the best I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen, both in America or Europe. The main train line in Tokyo (the Yamanote line) stops at my local station ever &lt;i&gt;2-3 minutes&lt;/i&gt; during peak hours, and around every 5-7 minutes during the off hours.&lt;p&gt;- The streets are clean, safe, and well maintained. Unlike cities I&amp;#x27;ve seen in America and Europe, garbage doesn&amp;#x27;t pile up in the streets.&lt;p&gt;- Service workers, partially in the government, have been friendly and helpful. Even when I didn&amp;#x27;t speak the language well, I&amp;#x27;ve never had trouble at the government office getting something done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>presentation</author><text>It’s interesting to me that my wife, who is Japanese, believes that in truth Japanese people are very unhelpful and unkind - she says that the politeness and helpfulness is a show that people do for foreigners as guests, but rarely show to one another. I think she’s exaggerating a bit, but there’s some truth to the different standards for different people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Tokyo Works</title><url>https://metropolisjapan.com/why-tokyo-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raziel414</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an American living in Tokyo, and it easily has the best quality of life out any city I&amp;#x27;ve lived in.&lt;p&gt;- The public transit is literally the best I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen, both in America or Europe. The main train line in Tokyo (the Yamanote line) stops at my local station ever &lt;i&gt;2-3 minutes&lt;/i&gt; during peak hours, and around every 5-7 minutes during the off hours.&lt;p&gt;- The streets are clean, safe, and well maintained. Unlike cities I&amp;#x27;ve seen in America and Europe, garbage doesn&amp;#x27;t pile up in the streets.&lt;p&gt;- Service workers, partially in the government, have been friendly and helpful. Even when I didn&amp;#x27;t speak the language well, I&amp;#x27;ve never had trouble at the government office getting something done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>A lot of this boils down to Japanese people being efficient and conscientious. I was walking around Ginza one day and noticed that sometimes you had to go multiple blocks to find a cross walk. People did it, and nobody jay walked. In DC or NYC it would have been a circus. Flying back to NYC from Tokyo is always jarring, like traveling back in time.</text></comment>