Visitors have often been baffled and underwhelmed: in the late 19th century Isabella Bird, a British traveller, dismissed Tokyo as " a city of 'magnificent distances' without magnificence" .

来访者常常感到困惑和不知所措：19 世纪末，英国旅行家伊莎贝拉·伯德 (Isabella Bird) 将东京斥为“一座‘远距离’但并不富丽堂皇的城市”。