East Asia Dispatch · Week 2 · The Landmark at a Port Is Not for the People Who Live There. It Is for the Person Arriving. That Is a Completely Different Thing.

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Every airport is outside the city. Every port is inside it. That is why, in an age of 4.7 billion air passengers, 35 million people still arrive by ship — and why the landmark at a cruise terminal is not the same as any other landmark. It is addressed to the arriving stranger. Yokohama has been rewriting its opening sentence since 1853. bcd-w.xyz

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