海外の大手新聞の日本旅行記 パチンコ屋のせいで京都には幻滅した。 http://www.theage.com.au/news/japan/number-one-without-a-bullet/2006/07/13/1152637806230.html
The Age, Australia Jul 15, 2006
Visitors to Kyoto have two choices: succumb to a monumental depression or avert the eyes.
The only way to love the place is to hop from one exquisite pocket to the next,
seeking gardens so sublime they stun, approaching temples so gorgeous that nothing else matters, and then deliberately blanking out what's in between.
Everyone does it, Japanese included.
Fortunately for Tanizaki, he lived before the arrival of Kyoto's latest main street blight, the pachinko parlour,
a variation on poker machine gaming. In pachinko, the players are paid out in buckets of silver ball bearings that they trade for cash at the end of a session.
Though it is no worse than any other form of daylight robbery,
pachinko takes a murderous toll on peace and quiet.
It is a shock to depart Tokyo in a sleek, white bullet train on a search for the real Japan and arrive in Kyoto to find that
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/13/TRG6TKDJTG1.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, August 13, 2006
sadly, some destinations don't fare so well. Say "Kyoto" and you probably envision a small, exquisitely temple-encrusted city,
bisected by narrow back lanes where clusters of kimono-clad women pad silently by like swarms of silken butterflies.
But my memory of the reality is an archetypal large Japanese city, complete with noisy pachinko parlors and high-tension wires poking above the haze.
