Tokyo - The City of Harmonious Chaos Japan | WOX Travel Contest | Week 18

Hello the fellow people of Steemit and the WOX community i wish you a wonderful day and get ready to be amazed and confused at the same time just like i was for the place i told you about.

Firstly i gotta note that i went there with my father, because he had some business to attend to, and i tried to play the tourist as much as possible. To be honest i was playing the amazed tourist most of the time, because my dad had some Japanese friends there and i was roaming around with their sons and daughters and surprisingly all of them english. Also for the record i wanted the first picture to be this special visa i had to get in order to go there, but it would’ve spoiled the cover of the post, instead of that i picked the famous sidewalk most of the people have seen and get in their head when they hear Tokyo.

This sidewalk is called the Shibuya Crossing which a lot of people have seen for example in the movie Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift and no Tokyo does not have that many vivid shining lights just like you see in the pictures i actually tried to replicate it with some filters, but i had no luck with it. 😅

So what are you going to see is some pictures in the centre of the city, which by the way everywhere i go have the feeling is the so called downtown, and i also wanna not that I didn’t remember the name of every place i went, because it was very hard to pronounce it and secondly it was written in Japanese, also for those of you who would be motivated on going there, don’t use the GPS putting names with google translate, trust me you will just get lost, thank god i had people with me.

Anyway i walked around in the centre and it felt like in the title a harmonious chaos I can’t explain it, it’s just that for the first time i had the most foreign vibes which I can’t explain, but i am in a country where I can’t understand a single word even if my life depended on it. So my friends or my navigators got me in this strange place to eat and they picked the dish for me, because i was basically reading hieroglyphics. It was some sort of soup with these noodles and meat which was magnificent and also strange. I could say I’ve finally felt what it is like to eat these noodles like in the anime movies where they slurp it all you know.

After that they showed me this arcade place, you know but modern full with these dancing games, basketball games, car games where you play and get tickets from for a prize like teddy bear. Anyway i have played on some and my i will call them friends showed me how to do almost everything, because when you turn the game on everything is on Japanese, it was as funny as hilarious to see the some foreign guy playing on that type of games, because i suck hard at them. 😅

Anyway for the time i was there i managed to get what Tokyo actually is, and its something between Utopia and Dystopia which is very technological. It may be Dystopian, because of all the tech and the streets full of people going somewhere doing their thing and it’s definitely fun for a tourist, but I wouldn’t even think of living there.

There’s this one thing that managed to impress me very much, which I was never interested in and this is I can’t describe it as things, but you know the feeling when you go somewhere foreign and everything looks interesting like the buildings, the stores the food like everything. Well this is the city which I wanted to literally buy and try everything, because it just looked so interesting, for example where have you ever seen a statue of Gozdilla in a time-sqare-ish street, just look a it. Or for example I don’t consider myself a reader or something, but look at the magazines, they look so interesting i know that I probably even if I could’ve spoken Japanese i will read something about some k-pop celebrity or some new tech thing which for me is kinda boring, but the vibes are just out of this world, just so exciting.

Okay let’s talk about the greenery of this city, which unfortunately I couldn’t visit every park or garden, because it’s like from a picture. Visiting this park which i think it was called Youogi something, it was exactly like from some anime cartoon you know with these perfectly made paths with this green grass and these little lakes and little rivers i can definitely confirm i felt zen mode walking in this garden or park I can’t describe it with words you go into this park which feels like a garden and a forest at the same time. I really love this culture. There was even this place where you throw coins and make a wish it was magnificent.

I wanna note that this was the place with the typical Japanese houses and structures, but a little bit modern, even walking on the streets there you feel like you are in some sort of an anime movie you know the small buildings where you find greenery in every terrace.

For my final words I’m gonna say something from the heart with some creative writing. In the embrace of Tokyo's enchanting realm, my spirit soared, transcending the mundane and delving into a world of infinite wonders. A pulsating symphony of colors and rhythms surrounded me, as if the very essence of time had surrendered to the city's whims. Tradition and innovation intertwined seamlessly, crafting a tapestry of mesmerizing beauty.

Also each bite of Tokyo's culinary treasures whispered a secret melody to my palate, a harmonious composition of flavors beyond compare. Imagination knew no boundaries here, as the city's vibrant energy ignited my creative soul. Farewell, dear Tokyo, for your spell has woven indelible memories into the fabric of my being.

Sometimes different means better and this city as different as it is it will always stay in my memories.

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