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A trail of two cities:

A trail of two cities: Tokyo, San Francisco and the naming of places echoes some thoughts I’ve been hearing about San Francisco lately, mostly through conversations with locals and visitors. Also somewhat related is a conversation I had with Bryan about his recent trip to Tokyo. He said (and I’m paraphrasing badly here) that Tokyo was constantly but consistently reinventing itself.