Originally Posted by LapLap

You’ve just stumbled on one of the true marvels of Tokyo and other large cities in Japan – people seem to find what they expect to find there.

If you expect to see a ‘Western’ country – that really is what you will see. Shinjuku will remind you of New York, Omotesando of London’s Chelsea district – Tokyo has an amazing, and very seductive, knack of fulfilling people’s expectations of it.