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Originally Posted by sillygodxdisco
okay let me make a correction. lol sorry >< --
in tokyo where i went i didn't see any residential buildings.
i went to ikebukuro, asakusa, harajuku, shinjuku, shibuya, ebisu, roppongi, tokyo dome city, and probably a few more places i'm forgetting. i didn't see any residential areas there O_O
no i didn't think you lived in the parks so that's why i found it "strange" that i didn't see any residential areas. perhaps you guys live in the .. less touristy [? lack of better term] areas?
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Once you leave these "touristy areas," even just a station or two away, you'd find that large parts, or even that majority of Tokyo is residential.
But a lot of people still live in those places you listed. There are apartments above shops and cafes, or even whole residential buildings next to them. If you do a quick Google search on housing in Tokyo, I'm sure many of these places will pop-up as choices. I remember walking around in the Harajuku-Omotesando area, just wandering a few minutes off the main street to find some very nice looking mansions.
But definitely as a tourist, there are way more exciting sights and sounds than these apartment buildings, so it's not surprising that you didn't notice them--I know I probably didn't on my first few visits there. It's like saying in NYC no one lives in Fifth Ave., Soho, Midtown, Times Square or other tourist-heavy areas. Granted they aren't your typical "residential neighborhoods" with places for kids to run around or whatnot, these tourist hubs are crammed with residential buildings as well.