I spent about a month walking around Tokyo in 2008. I cam before university started and I would just walk around an area and systematically go through all the l

I spent about a month walking around Tokyo in 2008. I cam before university started and I would just walk around an area and systematically go through all the little alleys and sidestreets. Other people who arrived just before the semester never had time to do the same and never built the same understanding of the city. I had a dumbphone so there wasn't anyway to turn off your brain and just find places to discover through a list.