Google Maps Tokyo: Slurpee Detector
Google Maps now speaks Tokyo, and the true influence of American chain eateries on the Japanese psyche becomes achingly clear. Apparently, the relative position of every 7-11, McDonald's, and Circle K is crucial to an understanding of where you are situated in Tokyo's notoriously opaque street system. Check out this power cluster of three Mickey D's within four city blocks, calling to the unsuspecting lost masses of Tokyo tourists with promises of grilled familiarity!
Actually, I had heard Tokyo was confusing, but is the local 7-11 as good as it gets for street signage?
(The photo above, by anotherview on Flickr, is of a 7-11 in Kobe, who also get the full Google Maps treatment. Strangely, when you google "7-11, Kobe, Japan", you get loads of map points, but none of them correspond to the 7-11 icons.)
Posted by tangentialist at July 14, 2005 05:58 PM | more tangentialism
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