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Looking down southward toward Shimbashi from an undisclosed vantage near Yurakucho Station. On the surface alone: the Yamanote Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Tokaido Main Line, Ueno-Tokyo Line, and the Tokaido Shinkansen. Within a span of merely a few hundred meters, the vital arteries of Japan are bundled layer upon layer — and beneath the surface, the Yokosuka Line, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway run further still. Yet these are merely the visible layers of density. It is said that the volume of information a modern person encounters in a single day rivals what people of the Edo period absorbed in an entire year. What they spent a lifetime acquiring, we consume in a matter of months. Just after sunset, when the brain has exceeded its processing capacity, the excess of information and speed erodes the field of vision. The city itself had already overdosed.
