Word: tokaido
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Along the craggy coastline of Honshu stretches the "Tokaido corridor," pegged at one end by Tokyo and at the other by Kobe. Within its compass lie Japan's six largest cities and an urban-industrial complex that produces 67% of its manufactured goods-along with most of the problems of identity and adaptation found in today's Japanese society. Under the chill gaze of sacred Mount Fuji, a man-made morass of concrete, steel and glass belches smoke and grime in a manner quite contradictory to the verses of the 8th century poet Akahito Yamabe, who wrote...
Nearly half of Japan's 98 million citizens live within the Tokaido corridor. Yet there are patches of refreshing relief from the pressures of mankind: groves of gracefully pirouetting pines, solemn stands of cedar, miniaturized terraces redolent of tangerines and tea. A bone-rattling bus ride from Nagoya can put a harried city dweller aboard a boat on the Gifu River, where-with a giant bottle of sake and the boon companionship of a river geisha-he can watch the cormorant fisherman sweep downstream...
Taking things a step farther, President Johnson last year won approval for a $90 million program to put high-speed (160 m.p.h.) trains-much like those of Japan's famed Tokaido line-into service between Boston and Washington, the nation's most people-packed corridor. For a little farther in the future, Detroit auto men are working on a system called Teletrans, in which punch cards would guide 45-m.p.h. private capsules along a track inside a tube. There are also plans for automated superhighways on which card-steered cars would whiz from Detroit to Washington in four...
HIROSHIGE-Mi Chou, 801 Madison Ave. at 68th. In his 53 Stages of Tokaido, Japan's 19th century master printmaker depicts the teahouses and travelers, rainy downpours and icicled landscapes along the road that runs from Tokyo to Kyoto. Through...
While the New Tokaido will serve all of Japan's six largest cities, it is of particular importance to fast-growing Osaka (pop. 3,100,000), the enterprising center of 25% of Japan's commerce...