ABSTRACT
Tokyo’s visual richness is not only in advertising (the neon signs and lights of the city) but also in food. Tokyo is encumbered by propane tanks, pylons, telephone poles, antennas, cables, electric and telephone wires which, because of the risk of earthquakes, are not buried. It is thus a visually encumbered city but one which, paradoxically, does not seem overpopulated, and rarely agitated, in a hurry, stressed. Tokyo is a metallic city made up of surfaces that reverberate on other surfaces, layouts that are often curved, translucent panels, large bay windows (which, in the daylight, become mirrors). Tokyo is a cinematographic city par excellence. Constantly playing off its visual resources, it is photogenic, telegenic, cinegenic. But it is above all kinetic, chaotic, and dispersed.
