Tokyo Quotes
Reflections on Japan's sprawling capital city
These quotes capture Tokyo from different vantage points, including the perspective of those who grew up in its surrounding countryside. Readers may also enjoy our city quotes collection.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
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Several speakers compare Tokyo to other great metropolises, weighing its scale and character against cities abroad. For related places, see our country quotes page.
