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It’s certainly not what I had hoped for, but the whole thing quickly grew on me. Everything is perfectly tight, clean, well-preserved, and smiling with a distinct Kawaii touch. Something straight off Nintendo or Sega Corp drafting tables from the mid-80s and decades later, still showing no signs of decay. While all the neon and tech gimmicks seemed to be there, the future they’re portraying feels strangely anachronistic - like a dream from the distant past.

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It’s as if you were hoping to land somewhere on the opening pages of Neuromancer, but ended up in the middle of a Studio Ghibli movie instead. Sometime way past midnight, it hit me – Future Shock. We checked out all the major places we had ever heard of (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Ginza…) because the jet lag was not letting us sleep anyway. From there we grabbed a taxi because we couldn’t understand a word in katakana but then we hopped the JR Yamanote Metro line once we had figured things out. Past the immigration, we took the JR Narita Express line into to the City that Friday evening. It’s great to know that no matter where you are, there’s always a friendly local hacker willing to help.

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By the time we landed, emails were waiting for us, with our full schedule completely worked out. With no time to prepare, we reached out to from Freaklabs and from Tokyo Hackerspace for some tips. He found these cheap tickets from LA, and the next thing you know – we were flying out for a 48-hours-in-Tokyo weekend. Not until a few weeks ago - , one of our crazy sysadmin guys that keeps Hackaday.io alive, made me do it. Thus, I opted for keeping the dream alive and never actually visited the place. Though it has been decades since the Bubble burst, and there’s no way this could still be the case, there was something romantic about believing it just might be.

Growing up on all the Cyberpunk literature and spending a more-than-healthy amount of time obsessing over Megatokyo series, I always imagined Japan to be at the very tail of this distribution. “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed,” goes the clichéd quote.