Springtime in Tokyo can be pretty nice. Especially in the evenings. After you've been on a train that was jammed to maximum capacity with a bunch of stressed out office workers, half-drunk salarymen and inadequate ventilation, stepping out onto the platfom and walking home in the cool darkness is nice finish to the day.

Especially if you take advantage of public consumption laws and enjoy a beer on the walk home.

It's worth noting that tomorrow is Memorial Day, the official start of summer in America.

Summer in Tokyo can be a sweltering, fetid, endurance contest, where the prospect of blackouts, the heat-island effect, and being required to wear a black suit to work every day, often causes otherwise successful Tokyo dwellers to consider taking up sustenance farming in someplace less inhospitable.

Like Outer Mongolia.