Arguably, Tokyo is the largest city in the world, with 36 million inhabitants (daytime numbers, 22 million at night). It is impressive how this city runs so smoothly with that many inhabitants. What would happen should it come to a standstill? Read the opening chapters of Two Journeys to find out!
Below some pictures that I took in Tokyo during past visits and that have inspired me to place my postapocalyptic work partly in Japan.
Highrises in Tokyo. I have removed the surrounding cityscape and only show the facades in these pictures – which emphasizes the bulk of these buildings. 
Alan, the hero of Two Journeys visits Tokyo around Christmas time… below a Christmas tree in a hotel foyer.
Should an epidemic of the proportions described in Two Journeys strike, the lights (above) would extinguish rapidly, and the trains such as the one below (famously overfilled) would halt…
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