Tokyo
About Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents as of 2024.
On the show — 117 mentions total
Einstein was once at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel in 1922 and he didn't have any money to tip the bellboy, so instead he wrote him two notes. The first said a calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
from 412: No Such Thing As A John Lennon Statue in Svalbard, 2022-02-04 at 00:17:18 · read transcript
Other times Tokyo came up
All the 98 Finnish diplomatic and consular missions in different parts of the world have their own saunas. OK, so that's what's leading. Our representatives here in Tokyo take pride in their two saunas. The embassy sauna in Tokyo was the first Finnish sauna built in Japan, but certainly not the last one. I'm sure there are many Finnish saunas in today's Japan and the Japanese guests and friends keep queuing to them. They love saunas.
59: No Such Thing As Old Mother Bastard, 2015-05-01 · listen
Sorry. That's not really leading. Yeah. Our representatives here in Tokyo take pride in their two saunas. The embassy sauna in Tokyo was the first Finnish sauna built in Japan, but certainly not the last one. I'm sure there are many Finnish saunas in today's Japan, and the Japanese guests and friends keep queuing to them. They love saunas. I got it. that's a speech actually. Although, apparently, this was a statement made by, not a statement, a comment made by Ollie Rain, who's a Finnish politician who's serving as a European commissioner for financial affairs.
No Such Thing As Old Mother Bastard, 2015-05-01 · listen
Did you say you were in Japan recently? I was in Japan, yeah, filming. I was in Tokyo, but the good bit, I got to go inside of the exclusion zone in Fukushima, which was wild. The whole place is extraordinary. There were these buildings, there was one sort of town hall that we went to and the doors are locked, but inside you can just see everybody's slippers and there was like a kid's toy on the floor and then, you know, like beer bottles, right?
474: No Such Thing As A Remote Controlled Cabbie, 2023-04-14 · listen
Actually, it was a woman who turned her kimono inside out to make her look like a vending machine. James, I can't believe I'm going to say this to you. What are you talking about? This is a thing it was invented by someone called Miss Sukioka, who's a 29 year old fashion designer in Tokyo. That was the idea. I'm not sure. I don't think they would commonly came into use after 2007.
361: No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect, 2021-02-19 · listen
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