Before dwelling upon the hidden kingdom of Japanese metropolis, allow me to make some further introductions.

Ohayo *! You, citizens, you elegant, dynamic, eccentric and merrymakers people, you hedonists among hedonists wearing traditional garments, secular coveralls or label suits, you who still live according to the celebrated rhythm of the seasons.

Unremitting vibrations in an unmatched human stream, Tokyo, Yokohama, Ôsaka, Kobe, Kyoto now form together a coastal conurbation whose growing promiscuity is neither frightening nor quite oppressive.

This multitude chose early to embrace a fleeting architecture with a changing - if not pleasantly discordant - nature. It sprawls quite naturally through countless microcosms and modules, close to your kitchen or living room, bringing you this much craved privacy as well as the comfort of voices that have become familiar out of habit or loneliness. For if you can be dissolved into a sweet and voluntary dullness by the sheer number, sometimes it can definitely outrun you, leaving you behind on the plateform long after the last train.

Our journey now continues in the heart of these colorful alleys and arterial streets, endless and aimless meanders, and will begin in Tokyo, legitimate and undisputable daughter of Edo, then cut across Japan. For you, this first - somewhat arranged - rendez-vous will wear a sensual evening dress suitable for light-hearted gallantries and maybe even for some lovers’ foreplay...

If the upcoming mystery will show itself through colors essentially borrowed to dreams, Metropolitizen has to provide a slight inflection in this sense. An extra voice in the flow of sounds and fragrances – familiar by now - will be added to this growing creation.

Shinjuku, central neighborhood-town of the capital city, will be your starting point and its first unnamed citizen will come with you. I am confident that she will know how to guide you through the sweet maze of these cities and, with her single-minded stride, how to spirit you away in the recesses of your imagination, memories or dreams.



*Good morning in japanese