Tokyo Quotes

In Tokyo, we have more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

— Jacob Aue Sobol

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

— Hideo Kojima

I'm very, very desperate to go to Tokyo and experience it.

— Serge Gnabry

“As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.”

— Ruth Ozeki

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a prestigious opportunity.

— Yui Mizuno

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

— Makoto Shinkai

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

— Robert McNamara

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you…

— Toots Thielemans

'Fast and Furious' continues to be alive, which means 'Tokyo Drift' is still alive, which means DK is very much alive.

— Brian Tee

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Winning the 2012 bronze medal was magnificent, but I would love to win a gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

— Mary Kom

“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to…

— Olivia Sudjic

As soon as we landed in Tokyo, that's when I was like, OK. I really want to bring home a gold medal.'

— Jessica Long

Tokyo is unbelievable. They have loads for kids, and the range of activities they can propose for young kids is incredible.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks…

— Alain Ducasse

A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind…

— Brad Warner

I have been to Tokyo and several other cities, but I have never been to Yamaguchi Prefecture. I wonder what it is…

— Vladimir Putin

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and…

— Robert Palmer

Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then…

— Ai Yazawa

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,…

— Kim Edwards

I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew…

— Bobby Lee

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must…

— Apolo Ohno

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author…

— Alane Ferguson

A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back…The nation's marketplace of ideas is being…

— Keith Olbermann

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night…

— Dave Barry

The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and…

— Jack LaLanne

New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the…

— Jim Gaffigan

I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in…

— Drew Waters

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with…

— Stephen Bruner

I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's…

— Vladimir Putin

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled…

— David Mitchell

“In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask…

— David Sedaris

“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday…

— Haruki Murakami

“Tokyo is so vast, and can be so cruelly impersonal, that the succor provided by its occasional oasis is sweeter than that…

— Barry Eisler

Here in Tokyo, this is one of my favorite Paralympics I've ever attended.

— Jessica Long

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

— Rebecca MacKinnon