10/10

10/10

10/10 this is skyscrapercity

10/10!

I had low expectations for Tokyo from the photos but when I visited last month I was really impressed!

10. Excellent. Regards.

Panorama Photo:

Photo 2009-01-06
Panorama Photo.
Left side--TokyoTower, right side--SkytreeTower, center--Mt.fuji.

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I'm quite disappointed with the pictures..
until i find a decent one.. ill hold the 10 for now..
and give it 8.5 temporarily

10/10

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^^ Awesome architecture!

10/10 :cheers:

perfect mega city...

10/10 m))

Density is my second name

9.5/10

I'm quite disappointed with the pictures..
until i find a decent one.. ill hold the 10 for now..
and give it 8.5 temporarily

Fair comment. Tokyo is an unparalled urban giant, literally nowhere comes close to its sheer enormous scale but it is NOT a 10 out of 10 skyline. It has many superlatives but not a superlative skyline.

10/10 :)

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8.5/10

Horrific, 0/10

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10

i originally rated this a 7.5. I now want it changed to 9.5!

MASSIVE!10/10 for density-9.5/10 for The skyline!

10/10

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10/10 I love Tokio Skyline its very very nice:cheers:

Wow..i love Tokyo...10/10

huge but not particularly pretty

Some forumers are lucky enough to have been to Tokyo. Others have not. May I suggest that if you haven not been to Tokyo you simply must go. It is not the greatest skyline. It is not even top 5 in skylines but as a city it is simply unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. The density, the sheer vastness, the neon eyescapes, the almost endlessness of it. Tokyo is to our generation what NY was post WW2, what London was in the 19th century, What Rome was in the first centuries AD. It is the ultimate urban place. The essential expression of urban life in our time.

Go to Tokyo.

Some forumers are lucky enough to have been to Tokyo. Others have not. May I suggest that if you haven not been to Tokyo you simply must go. It is not the greatest skyline. It is not even top 5 in skylines but as a city it is simply unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. The density, the sheer vastness, the neon eyescapes, the almost endlessness of it. Tokyo is to our generation what NY was post WW2, what London was in the 19th century, What Rome was in the first centuries AD. It is the ultimate urban place. The essential expression of urban life in our time.

Go to Tokyo.

^^ Totally agree with you. When I talk to people about my time in Tokyo, they simply think that I'm exaggerating...well, it's their loss.

its great 9.5!

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Tokyo Sky Tree

Two more pics:
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I'd go as far as calling it the Japanese Manhattan... skyline-wise

Some forumers are lucky enough to have been to Tokyo. Others have not. May I suggest that if you haven not been to Tokyo you simply must go. It is not the greatest skyline. It is not even top 5 in skylines but as a city it is simply unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. The density, the sheer vastness, the neon eyescapes, the almost endlessness of it. Tokyo is to our generation what NY was post WW2, what London was in the 19th century, What Rome was in the first centuries AD. It is the ultimate urban place. The essential expression of urban life in our time.

Go to Tokyo.

VEry well put there mate and I wholly agree!

Wonderful :)

Freakin' awesome 100000/10 :")
10/10

Tokyo has a great skyline in terms of balance, shape and density. But I find most of the buildings to be very bland. It needs some eye catchers and supertalls if it's going to be on par with Hong Kong/Chicago/NYC/Shanghai etc.

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Sieradzanin's excellent pix gives some indication of the scale of the city. It is simply huge.

9/10

Amazing density, but it needs more height.

9.5 that i voted ,best i voted ever

10/10 City of my dreams.:hug:
Huge, Beautiful, Modern, Clean ,Wonderful and Excellent Systematically.

9,5/9,5

definitly one of the greatest of the great. The sheer density in amazing plus the buildings have great designs. 10/10

very dense.
unfortunately got height restriction.

Fascinating city. Not a great skyline though (7/10).

Tokyo is one of the most amazing cities in the world. Not the best skyline, its hugeness is overwhelming. 10/10

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Tokyo skyline (2008):

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Shinjuku, Tokyo skyline (2009):

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Tokyo Bay (2010):

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Geez... how bad is traffic in tokyo? i wonder how fast you can go from
one point to the other considering how dense it looks and how tiny the
roads are... would be nice to see street level pics!

Traffic isn't a problem since most of the population uses trains, Well this is "rate our skylines" section. You can go to Japan forum (in my link) to see tons of pictures (or my own pictures of tokyo most of them are street level).

Some of my Tokyo shots:
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Leaving Tokyo:
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Really? is it your pics? :ohno: seems coming from a soap tv or a clip...

Anyway i give 9/10 to tokyo! i think the limitations in height intimidated architect inspiration

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Really? is it your pics? :ohno: seems coming from a soap tv or a clip...

Anyway i give 9/10 to tokyo! i think the limitations in height intimidated architect inspiration

haha. I saw that movie. This girl on second picture is Scarlet Johanson.

Anyway, 10/10 for Tokio.

8.5/10

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10/10

Fantastic urbanity but there isn't really a "skyline" to speak of.

7/10.

As a city though it just seems to go on forever. Unreal.

Geez... how bad is traffic in tokyo? i wonder how fast you can go from
one point to the other considering how dense it looks and how tiny the
roads are... would be nice to see street level pics!

For a Megapolis of its size, you'd be surprised that traffic jams are quite rare except perhaps on the long holidays where more than 10 million people go in a frenzy to drive out of Tokyo. Hahaha.

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10!!! Tokyo is great! Luv this city!

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Great picture!

Great average air quality for a city of this size(combination of NYC and London).

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Definitively tokyo like NYC are the two best in the world! no comparison
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^^yes tokyo isn't tall, but it's expansive, dense, and beautiful too. Possibly one of the few urban jungles that can maintain an amazing street life and great standard of living as well.

tokyo is taller than european counterparts and if no earthquakes they would build higher!

Tokyo is the best city in the world :).

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Muza-chan shot different views of rainbow bridge (12 total, but I'll post 11--I don't like one of the views :D)

1. View from Tokyo Tower:
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2. View from the Sumida river:
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3. View from Hamarikyu Gardens:
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4. View from the Rainbow Bridge’s walkway:
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5. Night view from Hinode Pier:
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6. View from Fuji TV, Odaiba:
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7. View from Shibaura-futō Station:
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8. View from Aqua City, Odaiba:
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9. View from Fune no Kagakukan (Museum of Maritime Science):
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10. View from Roppongi Hills:
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11. Night view from Harumi Pier:
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My favorites are the views from tokyo tower and fuji tv, odaiba.......

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Shinjuku Time Lapse
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japan recently won the asian cup, for the 4th straight time...just wanted to add that in.

I'd give it a 10. Organized Chaos.

5/10

Tokyo's skyline seen from above is very mediocre. People have to stop calling Tokyo the most modern futuristic city in the world. Yes, it USED TO be the most modern futuristic city in the world in the 80's, but now it is not anymore. Tokyo hasnt done any outstanding improvements in infra-structure during the latest 20 years (Tokyo Skytree is the only exception but it is in my opinion extremely ugly). The argument is "Tokyo's already perfect", but I must say I'm a little bit tired of that argument now...

Love this shot off Wikipedia:

http://s1.directupload.net/images/110421/lhseqp2p.jpg

But the Tokyo skyline is more of a huge collection of buildings than a cohesive silhouette... also the quality of the single buildings is not as good as, for example, in New York City or Chicago.

But it is still impressive.

9/10

quality of the single buildings is not as good as, for example, in New York City or Chicago.

ur kidding no building in NY or CH could stand quake like in Japan last month!!! and not just that look closer to each building cladding quality especially Cocoon tower amazing SO DONT BE ARROGANT AMERICAN FACE THE TRUTH lol

5/10

Tokyo's skyline seen from above is very mediocre. People have to stop calling Tokyo the most modern futuristic city in the world. Yes, it USED TO be the most modern futuristic city in the world in the 80's, but now it is not anymore. Tokyo hasnt done any outstanding improvements in infra-structure during the latest 20 years (Tokyo Skytree is the only exception but it is in my opinion extremely ugly). The argument is "Tokyo's already perfect", but I must say I'm a little bit tired of that argument now...

I don't agree with you, the skyline from above isn't mediocre to me, but a giant. Sure it may not be as tall as other global cities but it's a stunner, and that's why it remains my favorite skyline in the world.

Now, I agree w/ you it's absurd to call Tokyo perfect, no such thing as that. The skyline to me isn't futuristic either, so I don't know where some people get that from. If anything the most 'futuristic' skyline imo is Shanghai due to oriental pearl tower, but of course we all have our own opinions.

ur kidding no building in NY or CH could stand quake like in Japan last month!!! and not just that look closer to each building cladding quality especially Cocoon tower amazing SO DONT BE ARROGANT AMERICAN FACE THE TRUTH lol
You know, you're just making yourself look like an idiot. NYC or Chicago would never have an earthquake on the same magnitude as Tokyo. NYC at most magnitude 7, but magnitude 5-6 seem to be more likely to happen and the last major quake was in 1884. Brick buildings may be the most supplemental to damage, but reinforced, modern, etc. buildings should be perfectly fine.:nuts:

Tokyo's a giant for sure, but the cityscape is IMO more stunning if you walk on the street which is what I recommend. I like the view from Odaiba especially with the bridge, but as soon as you get up in in the Metropolitan Building you'll find the skyline quite mediocre. I dont know how to describe it in other words... perhaps the reason why it looks mediocre is because tight streets combined with seemingly billions of high-rises makes it look like a mountainous floor.

This is bullshit:
Shibuya, Tokyo, described as a "futuristic Times Square" by The New York Times. Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, "Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk."
It's time to update Wikipedia and remove all references to Tokyo and the rest of Japan as being futuristic. Much of its sources, likethis one (http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/japan_view/scifi.html) date back to 2001 and before.

This Jonipoon person is a joke. He or she thinks that Seoul has better skyline than Tokyo and Jonipoon even have Chongqing on spot number 5 (top 10 list). Chongqings building quality hold the same standard as Sao Paolos.

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This Jonipoon person is a joke. He or she thinks that Seoul has better skyline than Tokyo and Jonipoon even have Chongqing on spot number 5 (top 10 list). Chongqings building quality hold the same standard as Sao Paolos.

I'm tired of having to tell you the same thing over and over again, like some kind of teacher-student-thing:

My taste? If you read my rank list again, you will notice that the number 10 is obviously ironic. In my view, both Tokyo and Seoul have mediocre skylines. Thats why I wrote like "Tokyo? Nah scratch that I'll pick Seoul instead".

Oh well here we go again... As I stated in the other thread: If you read my rank list again, you will notice that the number 10 is obviously ironic. In my view, both Tokyo and Seoul have mediocre skylines. Thats why I wrote like "Tokyo? Nah scratch that I'll pick Seoul instead".

And woah woah woah, who's being ignorant now? Chongqing's skyline is far from horrible, we all know U-shaped rivers usually generates great skylines (New York, Shanghai etc). And BTW, we are not rating cities by the "standard" of their buildings, we are rating them by the beauty of their skylines. If we rated cities by the standard of the buildings, cities like Stockholm and Vienna would be in the top.

In order to get back on topic, I must say something about Bangkok's skyline. And I only have one question: Where are the outstanding towers? Baiyoke Tower 2 looks like shit IMO. I'm waiting for your reply, and I'm sure you are eager to defend Bangkok since you're obviously from Sweden. :lol:

this is a Tokyo skyline thread, get back to topic pls. You are speaking nonsense.

Then you shouldn't have posted your own inconsequent post in first place.

:cheers: have a nice day.

Tokyo is amazing :)

Edit above post: Tokyo is amazing, its skyline is mediocre.

You know, you're just making yourself look like an idiot. NYC or Chicago would never have an earthquake on the same magnitude as Tokyo. NYC at most magnitude 7, but magnitude 5-6 seem to be more likely to happen and the last major quake was in 1884. Brick buildings may be the most supplemental to damage, but reinforced, modern, etc. buildings should be perfectly fine.

Heidjer sadalso the quality of the single buildings is not as good as, for example, in New York City or Chicago.
That is the point, lm just saying that Tokyo crapers quality is equal or little bit better in some ways lol

^^Yet again, we are not here to rate cities by the quality of their buildings, but by the beauty and architectual uniqueness of them.

we are not here to rate cities by the quality of their buildings
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fantastic pic of Tokyo :cheers:

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Awesome :cheers:

9,5/10

8.5/10 so it's biggest city in the world and it's skyline isn't that good the street level is great. but this isn't about that the height restriction definitely messes up Tokyo's skyline it should be a lot taller and maybe more highrises and supertalls will be built as technology progresses.

Almost Japan's highrise buildings i think considere if they want to build it higher so the cost will be more expensive, most constructions of them must be stand of eathquake. So maybe Tokyo doesn't want any supertall constructions, because of their country geographic

8/10

Tokyo has about 20 buildings over 200 metres. Only 6 other cities have more. People underestimate Tokyo's skyline because it's so spread out.

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Tokyo has about 20 buildings over 200 metres. Only 6 other cities have more. People underestimate Tokyo's skyline because it's so spread out.

Once again people getting confused with what a skyline actually is.

It's not how many tall buildings a city has, or how dense it is, it is the sillouette of the buildings on the horizon. Tokyo is undoubtedly a marvel of urbanity and density, but the skyline is disjointed and asymmetrical and doesn't look as "nice" for instance as Singapore - a city with far fewer tall buildings.

9.5/10. Awesome city.

Once again people getting confused with what a skyline actually is.

It's not how many tall buildings a city has, or how dense it is, it is the sillouette of the buildings on the horizon. Tokyo is undoubtedly a marvel of urbanity and density, but the skyline is disjointed and asymmetrical and doesn't look as "nice" for instance as Singapore - a city with far fewer tall buildings.

You could apply your comment to yourself though. My definition is also the silhouette that a city's buildings make with the sky, but if you need 8 photos stitched together to view the whole thing at once it's hard to gain an appreciation for a skyline based on individual photos.

Manhattan is a prime example. You either view Midtown or Downtown in a photo. Rarely do you get a photo that manages to get the whole thing in one shot and when you do it's taken from so far away that you don't get an appreciation for how big those buildings are.

Perhaps you just don't like long skylines.

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how awkward, three 8s in a row.

Nice 8/10 :)

nice update !!!

7/10

Tokyo can't be talk because it is situated at the serious earthquake area.
But I love Japan city from its street view. Very clean and neat.

10/10. :cheers:

8.0

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^^sky tree in the background standing tall.:)

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I think Tokyo is one of the beautest city in the world, people, architechture!

Tokyo is awesome

Some more from Tokyo :applause:

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^^ The last picture will look really good when Sky Tree is finally lit up with LED :)

HEIGHT: 8.5
DENSITY: 10
SETTING: 7.5
ARCHITECTURE: 7
WOW FACTOR: 7.5
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AVERAGE: 8.1 or 8.5/10! :cheers2:

10- Exhilarating! & Elegant Looking!
9.5- Almost perfect!
9- Charming!
8.5- Brilliant and Vibrant!
8.0- Really Nice!
7.5- Above Average
7.0- Average-looking, decent
6.5- Somehow interesting
6.0- Has a lot of potential
5.5- Skyline is ok. needs to build more
5.0- Nothing special
4.5- Please build!
4.0- Generally flat
3.5 or less- Where's the skyline?

:cheers2:

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I think Tokyo is one of the beautest city in the world, people, architechture!

not the most beautiful but one of the most amazing cities YES :banana:

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That's just terrific. People don't give Tokyo enough credit. Scenes like this get lot in the vastness of the city. Almost a 9/10. Tokyo's 5th best globally.

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Nice pics.

10 OUT 10 from Manila TRULY ONE OF THE MODERN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD

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Whoa... what a metropolis..(and I guess that's just a quarter of Tokyo's city lights, south west of the downtowns?)
Seriously, I'm proud to be a citizen of the Earth now...

8.0. Lacks the wow factor compared to other skylines. Many tall buildings in a very dense city, but the skyline is a mess.

Tokyo truly fascinates me more than any other city in the world. How a city could be so vast yet relatively safe and clean is simply astounding :eek:

Why would 5 million vs 35 million make any difference to safety and cleanliness? :weird:

5 million is easier to manage?

5 million is easier to manage?

Wouldn't 35 million people just mean the exact same municipal services that a city of 5 million uses duplicated to cover the whole population? I would imagine the biggest determining factors are population density, tax base, and the level of municipal government that a society develops.

One sees a drop off in the quality of municipal services from country to country, but rarely a huge difference within the same country. In Canada, a large city of 5,000,000 enjoys the same level of cleanliness, crime, services as a small city of 500,000. If anything, the larger city gets a little more in the way of transportation services due to population size and population density.

9.5/10.

Wouldn't 35 million people just mean the exact same municipal services that a city of 5 million uses duplicated to cover the whole population? I would imagine the biggest determining factors are population density, tax base, and the level of municipal government that a society develops.

One sees a drop off in the quality of municipal services from country to country, but rarely a huge difference within the same country. In Canada, a large city of 5,000,000 enjoys the same level of cleanliness, crime, services as a small city of 500,000. If anything, the larger city gets a little more in the way of transportation services due to population size and population density.

It has to do with population density as you said, and out every major city I have travelled to ...Tokyo is the cleanest city despite being denser than most north american and european cities. Tokyo's murder rate in 2011 was .7 per 100,000..nearly double the nation's average but still a fraction of most world cities.

I think he is suprised because many people around the world equate large cities with grime/grit/crime.

I think he is suprised because many people around the world equate large cities with grime/grit/crime.

I see. I equate those things with large cities outside of wealthy industrialized countries.

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35 million people, just damn, Tokyo has as nearly as many people as Spain or California.

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^^ Fantastic. 10

6/10

Not the largest city. Not the tallest city. Not the most vibrant. Not the most modern.
The wow-factor of Tokyo can easily be achieved by many Asian cities.

But Tokyo is the largest city, by a comfortable margin, in the world unless for whatever reason you strip away the suburbs. Yes, the city (or whatever Tokyo proper technically is categorized as) is a "mere" 9 million at night. But Tokyo's "city" limits are almost North American or European in being physically small; the suburbs go on and on. At 35 million, Tokyo has 10 million more than any other single metro area on Earth - and for that fact alone I'll give Tokyo an 8.5. I hold off from a 10 because of no tall landmark buildings (although I understand the earthquake factor) and I'm no fan of disparate clumps versus a single huge mass of buildings. But 35 million in one city -- you have to be in awe of the largest city in human history.

The only way you can get a larger group of people in one urban area is to start clumping city clusters together, and even then only the Guangzhou-Hong Kong mass and Boston-Washington (and maybe the Blue Banana along the Rhine Valley) can pass this single city.

you forgot the Ganges Valley with 400 mios people!

you forgot the Ganges Valley with 400 mios people!

Ah, but the Gangetic Plains aren't even close to a mesh of contiguous urban areas, with dozens of miles of open countryside in between its cities. There's a similar situation with the vast and vastly populated Yangtze Valley in China.

In short, Tokyo is the single largest centralized urban area, and thus I'd say city, in the world. The Pearl River Delta and New York-Washington are close to contiguous, but not centralized.

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Awesome city!
Thanks for sharing the photos!

the CBD opposite to the Imperial palace.

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9.5/10

i love TOKYO

tokyo is tokyo
manila is manila

nothing compares with the beauty of this cities

I prefer the skyline of Marunouchi 丸の内 and Yūrakuchō 有楽町

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A good looking urban environment but not up to the standards of HK or NY.

A good looking urban environment but not up to the standards of HK or NY.

Not by height, but it arguably beats both by many other urban metrics.

Not by height, but it arguably beats both by many other urban metrics.

Not to mention being more populous than both of them combined.

A good looking urban environment but not up to the standards of HK or NY.

If you take a look at the architectural style, New York has more similarities to Tokyo than Hong Kong.

7.5/10

9.5/10.

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I'll give the skyline, the complete skyline 7.5 but then again, a lot of the pictures here show areas larger than most CBD's of any city in the world, heck even larger than many cities themselves. If we are to judge Tokyo as a whole, then by the same token we should judge Shanghai skyline as more than just Pudong, or NYC just Manhattan.

Which skyline are we rating??? Shinjuku? Marunouchi? Roppongi? Odaiba? and why stop there? I see people here talking about the 35+ million figure, so we should also include Chiba, Yokohama, Saitama, Kawasaki, etc. The Yokohama skyline is one of my favourites, not many tall buildings but beautiful, balanced and hella futuristic.

Also, I don't know what people are talking about Tokyo not being futuristic, as if only the design and height of buildings are qualities that make a city futuristic. I think being able to drink water out of the tap and not worry a bit is a futuristic quality. I think being able to pay my electricity or internet bill at 2:30 AM, and not worry about getting mugged on my way back is futuristic. I think being able to go virtually anywhere with reliable public transport is futuristic.