My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps(ahmedhossamdev.com)
404 points by ahmedhossamdev | 172 comments
Personal blog post by Ahmed Hossam about his hobby of virtually exploring Tokyo streets using Google Maps Street View.
#tokyo on Hacker News
7 stories tagged tokyo, newest first.
A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023(jivx.com)
7 points by momentmaker | 1 comments
An interactive data visualization of a Kichijoji school's daily record since 1963 of whether Mt. Fuji was visible from Tokyo, alongside Kofu's first-snow records.
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese(jivx.com)
354 points by momentmaker | 70 comments
Densha, a web app that renders a voxel 3D Tokyo synced to Japan time where users ride the Yamanote line loop while studying Japanese sentences.
Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world(axios.com)
463 points by skx001 | 354 comments
Axios news article reporting that Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo to become the world's largest city by population.
Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line(yamanot.es)
324 points by zdw | 97 comments
Yamanot.es is an interactive web music box that plays the departure melodies of stations on Tokyo's JR Yamanote Line.
Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line(soranews24.com)
487 points by edward | 303 comments
SoraNews24 article about what to do when stranded at the last station of Tokyo's Chuo Rapid Line after falling asleep or missing the last train.
Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees(cnn.com)
582 points by amichail | 286 comments
CNN article reporting that the Tokyo metropolitan government will offer employees a four-day workweek to help boost fertility and family time.