#tochomae

The year is 2004.

You’ve just finished school. All your life lies ahead.

All those dreams, all that youth.

You turn your Ipod on, evanescence is playing.

It begins to rain, you are looking through the window of the bus.

Your travel has began.

Sometimes I wonder if all this sadness is common.

都庁前 Tochōmae (in front of the Tōkyō Metropolitan Government Building) The etymology of the place name is straight forward. 都 to means “metropolis” – a kind of “super prefecture.” 庁 chō means office. 前 mae means front. This is the name of the Tōkyō Metropolitan Government Building. The TMG Building is quite impressive. It’s a massive 48 floor skyscraper that splits into 2 towers at the 33rd floor.…