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Did you ever go to Tokyo, Japan in the year 2077? Well...welcome back! I don’t
know exactly why they chose this year for their recreation. I looked it
up, there’s no Tokyo 2042, or Tokyo-Yokohama 2115. Maybe it’s random, or maybe
the creator has some particular affinity for this city in this time period.
They may have just as easily chosen 2075 or 2078; I dunno. I did find
something when I searched for answers in the central archives that the year
2077 was used in a surprisingly great number of media, but they were all set
in the future, because they were created before this. So maybe it’s just a nod
to that, because the robot staff aren’t telling me anything. They just say,
this is Tokyo 2077, have at it. I think I may know why Tokyo was
chosen, though. At the turn of the 22nd century, there was a huge push towards
population overcentralization. They figured out how to create megastructures
that could fit hundreds of thousands of people each. They were nicer, newer,
and allowed the rest of the land below to be returned to the plants and
animals. They built these things several miles away from the population
centers of the time, so people didn’t have to move very far, and once the old
cities were emptied out, they could start to bulldoze them over. Tokyo was one
of the last holdouts, and not because they hated pandas. There were a number
of reasons, but the main one was that they were already so densely packed.
There was no room to build the damn thing nearby, especially when competing
against other priorities, like preexisting wildlife preserves, and
historically protected settlements. They also wanted to build it near the
ocean, because people love the water, and all that space was taken up, because
like I literally just said, people love the water. Plus, the population by
then in the Tokyo Metropolis was already so huge, one of these arcologies
barely made a dent anyway. They needed a lot more to make any bit of
difference. As I mentioned, it eventually merged with Yokohama, forming one
gigantic city that wasn’t going anywhere soon. People eventually did move out,
to seasteads, orbitals, interplanetary and interstellar colonies, and to just
other parts of the world, but it took longer than anywhere else to find room
to construct the megastructures. Anyway, if you have some particular interest
in seeing what Tokyo looked like a few decades before this great transition—or
in reminiscing—come check it out. There’s plenty to do here, but the theme
isn’t any narrower than the city as a whole. It’s only a replica with robots
simulating people living their everyday lives, so no one’s going to give you
anything specific to do. People are starting to treat it like a violent video
game, and destroying the androids like criminal thugs. I don’t know why it’s a
growing trend in this particular dome, because the planet is riddled with
non-self-aware droids, but you can try that if you have a lot of pent-up
aggression. Be yourself, I guess.
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