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Originally Posted by philostyle
not entirely concerned with the radiation scare as i think it's so small.. smokers are even more at risk.. however, I am quite concerned with unavailability of food and aftershocks as I am not used to earthquakes. i hope anyone could reply who is actually in tokyo. shinjuku or roppongi area to be more precise.
Thanks in advance!
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I live in Shinjuku and I can say that you will be just fine as a tourist as I am as a resident. I don't know what you may have been hearing but there is no need to worry about the availability of food at all. Certain products that come from the heavily-hit areas will obviously not be available as you can imagine, but those have quickly been replaced by similar products from other regions. There is simply no way that Japan can afford to let Tokyo go starving.
Restaurants and bars are open though some of them voluntarily close a couple of hours earlier at night now to save electricity. Convenience stores are still open 24 hours. I almost feel "guilty" that Shinjuku, along with 3 other more "important" wards do not even get the rolling blackouts that I hear on TV about.
Regarding the aftershocks, there is no predicting, naturally. We get a small one every 2 or 3 days now but that is nothing like the very first quake 2 weeks ago. Even back then, Tokyo incured almost no physical damage.