There’s enough going on in Tokyo that baffles visitors, and even if you’ve lived here for a while, you might stumble into some things that make you ask, ‘why…?’. To demystify some of these, I answered some of the most pressing questions on Tokyo for Time Out.
Tokyo Q&A
That includes how a Statue of Liberty made it to Odaiba, why plastic bottles are tied to lampposts in every other street, how earthquake warnings and catfish are related, and what those little tissue monks are doing everywhere. I also wrote up a few of Tokyo’s most famous ghost stories, the telling of which is a favoured summer pastime.
Kirsty Bouwers 