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Chiba tourist information
Chiba tourist information
Despite being ignored entirely or dismissed as "suburbia" by travel guides, as William Gibson fans will know, there is one excellent reason for visiting Chiba, as the "Tokyo-Chiba urban sprawl" is where much of Neuromancer (ISBN 0441569595) is set:
In Japan, he'd known with a clenched and absolute certainty, he'd find his cure. In Chiba. Either in a registered clinic or in the shadowland of black medicine. Synonymous with implants, nerve-splicing, and microbionics, Chiba was a magnet for the Sprawl's techno-criminal subcultures...
As it happens, Gibson's dystopian cyberpunk visions are at times difficult to correlate with the reality of modern-day Chiba, but the area still makes a reasonably interesting day trip from Tokyo if you have time to spare and prefer high technology toys over mouldering temples.
Oyumino is not so big and is more a suburb surrounded by a lot of nature. There are many beautiful parks and nature trails. By contrast, development of Oyumino has been proceeded at the same time. Every year, the number of new housings and shopping centres increases rapidly.
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