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2253 - Tokyo, Japan

It must be insane living in Tokyo 東京 and the Greater Tokyo Area. There are 14 million people in Tokyo, and 37.5 million in the GTA. Canada only had 35 million in the 2016 census! I don't think I could imagine living in such a densely populated city. 

Daria, a Russian ex-pat from Siberia, lives in Tokyo (nothing in her bio or on the card to suggest why). She sent me a beautiful drawing entitled "Spring on River Sumida." She also fairly new to Postcrossing as her 'sents' and 'received' only number in the teens. Hopefully she will stick around because she has good taste in postcards.

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