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> and the fact that most people who can leave Tokyo to raise children do (even if it means commuting 2hrs each way every day on a train). Is that why the popul
by arcticbull 4y ago
> and the fact that most people who can leave Tokyo to raise children do (even if it means commuting 2hrs each way every day on a train).
Is that why the population is 14M - 34M in the metro? Bigger than every American city and about the size of all of Canada combined? They just can't get out to where it should by all accounts be cheaper? Is there a fence or something?
- kurthr 4y agoIt takes too long to get there by train. Shinkansen is too expensive for daily commuting (for normal people). Two hours each way sleeping on a commuter train is about the limit of what people can tolerate. I love Tokyo and the rest of Japan. It's amazing, but if you put any other culture in Tokyo, it would be unlivable.