Tokyo Gets Hooked on Cars: from the Orange Chuo Line
by H
About This Novel
There is a book I want to write for you, about Tokyo. I'm sorry, time and resources don't allow me to take you slowly. However, after reading this book and buying a ticket, you should be able to discover your own Chuo Line, your own personalized Tokyo. --Arai Kazusan Perhaps you have been to Tokyo once and visited Odaiba, Asakusa, and Disneyland with a tour group; perhaps you have been to Tokyo many times and visited Ginza, Roppongi, and Kanda Jimbocho on your own; perhaps you have not been to Tokyo yet... In any case, you cannot know the whole picture of Tokyo; because this city is really big. On the map of Arai, there is an orange horizontal line, which is the JR Chuo Line railway track. The Chuo Line starts in Tokyo and runs through the city in an inverted S-shape, from Shinjuku to the west to Takao. Chuo Line, which retains its bohemian cultural atmosphere, has attracted cultural people of all ages since the Edo period. Kawabata Yasunari wrote "Women's Body" in the ancient Tokyo STATIONHOTEL. The rocker's yakiniku shop "Ebi" is the favorite resting place of Tokyo men. The musical instrument street and Jimbocho old bookstore street at Ochanomizu Station, the public bath "Yutopia" at the north entrance of Ogikubo Station, the cultural salon at Nakamuraya at the east exit of Shinjuku, Kichijoji where the concentration of Japanese cartoonists... Welcome to the Chuo Line Cultural Circle!
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