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| Calendars show the date to be July 22nd, 1999. Clocks, and watches show that time stopped approximately at 12pm. Noon. It was a cool but sunny day. It’s still a cool, sunny day. People are exactly how they have been left, when whatever happened, happened. People are frozen in the streets mid-stride, shopping and laughing, walking their dogs, hurrying to lunch meetings. Some are asleep in their bed, or cooking lunch. Some are stuck in Shinjuku lunch hour traffic. Subways are in mid-tunnel and packed with salary men and women heading for their lunch meetings. School girls and boys are out playing sports and tourists are pointing at things of interest. Birds are frozen, flying in the sky and fire from the cooking range is hot but not burning. You are able to move people and take things, but you cannot wake them. There is no awareness in their eyes. No movements. No one breathes, and everything is utterly still and silent. Leaves are in mid-gust, frozen in the sky until you pluck one out. Only then would it fall to the ground. Food, as with all organic things is ‘frozen’ in time. This means fresh produce, meat and plants are also frozen. The food in the supermarket will not rot, but it will not grow, either. House plants wont wilt, but they will not bloom. There is no dust. There does seem to be some electrical currents. Enough for the lights of an apartment to still work, if you manually turn them on. Water will run if you turn on the taps. Communicative technology doesn’t work. No cell phones, no landlines, and the Internet as we know it (google, wikipedia, email etc.) is down. If you attempt to connect to the Internet you will get brought to Dario’s networked message board. No one is certain how this works, and you likely can’t do the same without assistance from the elusive Dario. |
| City Details |
| Tokyo is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 35 million people. Over eight million people live within Tokyo's 23 wards. During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chūō, and Minato, whose collective population is less than 300,000 at night, but over two million during the day. Shibuya Shibuya has achieved great popularity among young people in the last 30 years. There are several famous fashion department stores in Shibuya. Shibuya 109 is a major shopping center near Shibuya Station, particularly famous as the origin of the kogal subculture. The contemporary fashion scene in Shibuya extends northward from Shibuya Station to Harajuku, where youth culture reigns; Omotesandō, the zelkova tree- and fashion brand-lined street; and Sendagaya, Tokyo's apparel design district. During the late 1990s, Shibuya also became known as the center of the IT industry in Japan. Shinjuku Shinjuku has the highest numbers of registered foreign nationals of any community in Tokyo. Aproximately, 29,000 non-Japanese with 107 different nationalities were registered in Shinjuku. Surrounding Shinjuku are six other wards: Chiyoda to the east; Bunkyo and Toshima to the north; Nakano to the west, and Shibuya and Minato to the south. Surrounding Shinjuku Station are department stores, specialist electronic and camera shops, cinemas, restaurants and bars. Many international hotels are located here. The ward has an estimated population of 312,000 and a density of 17,000 persons per km². The total area is 18.23 km². Chiyoda Chiyoda is located at the very heart of central Tokyo. The central area of the ward is furthermore occupied by the Imperial Palace. The east side of the ward, bordering Chūō, is the location of Tokyo Station. The south side, bordering Minato, encompasses Hibiya Park and the National Diet Building. It is almost exclusively occupied by administrations and agencies. The west and northwest are primarily upper class residential; the Yasukuni Shrine is also there. To the north and northeast are several residential neighborhoods and the Akihabara commercial district. Chūō Chūō is divided into the three zones of Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and Tsukishima. Nihonbashi and Kyobashi are predominantly commercial areas on the east side of Tokyo Station, and incorporate the famous districts of Ginza and Tsukiji. Tsukishima is a separate island in Tokyo Bay dominated by condominium towers. The Sumida River forms the eastern boundary of the ward. Minato Minato is located southwest of the Imperial Palace and has boundaries with the special wards of Chiyoda, Chūō, Kōtō (in Odaiba), Shinagawa, Shibuya and Shinjuku. |
| Tips and suggestions |
| You probably don't need to leave the inner wards listed above. While it's possible for you to walk to the aiport and fly a plane to New York, there's no one awake there. As it is , you are limited to walking and perhaps stealing a bike for transportation. Trains are frozen and cars... there are a lot of cars but where would go with the traffic frozen in place? Only major streets are named. That's right. Your best bet is to navigate from landmarks. "Two blocks past the Yoshinoya, take a left at the circle-K and walk four blocks, up the big hill..." The outer wards however, could provide some adventuring, and perhaps you will hear about something that you can only find in Yokohama, so you might want to take an exposition out that way. You are certainly free to do so. Please keep in mind that as the average person can walk (maximum!) 5km per hour, it would take a good three hours to cover most of Shinjuku... Of course, as a demon or angel this may not apply. |
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