This is Tokyo as a text adventure. It uses the same real, named places as the 3D version, and every building is described the way you'd find it inside. It works with any screen reader and keyboard, and you don't need graphics.
Type a command and press Enter, or use the buttons. Try look, north, go to and a place name, enter, menu, order 1, sit, talk, leave or help.
1,778 named places from the real map are in this walk. Here is what each kind is like when you step through the door, with real examples you can visit:
Shelves of goods run in rows toward the back, there's a display table near the door, and a register counter sits beside the entrance.
For example: 辻屋本店, 森暁雄宝飾店, おつけもの丸仁, Daruma Land.
Tables with paired chairs fill the room, and high-backed booths run down one wall. A chalkboard menu hangs over the kitchen counter at the back, where a server stands ready. Posters brighten the side wall.
For example: しゃぶしゃぶ温野菜, 極 濃厚抹茶専門店, 浅草名代らーめん 与ろゐ屋, Carib.
Desks with chairs, a bookcase of files and a few plants. It's quiet apart from keyboards.
For example: 東京みやこ商事, 三菱UFJ銀行, あみ清, 荒井商店.
Rows of pews split by a centre aisle lead to an altar at the front, with a plant standing on either side. It's calm and still.
For example: 金龍山 浅草寺, 嬉乃森稲荷神社, 三峰神社, 六角堂.
The lobby has a long front desk with a brass bell and a wall of key-card slots behind it. There's a red rug with a sofa and armchairs, tall potted plants, a brass luggage cart and two elevator doors. A chandelier glitters overhead. Past the lobby, a corridor leads to guest rooms, each with a bed, nightstands and lamps, a TV on the dresser and a window.
For example: 旅館浅草指月, ASAKUSA KAEDE 浅草楓, Tobu Hotel, ホテルトレンド.
The espresso machine hisses behind a wooden counter, next to a grinder and a glass case of pastries. A chalkboard lists the drinks. Small round tables fill the room, and a sofa corner with a rug, a lamp and a bookcase sits by the window. Warm bulbs hang low over everything.
For example: Café & Bar Omiya, Café lapin, COFFEE 金龍, Sekai cafe.
A waiting room with chairs and a coffee table faces the reception desk. Down the hall, exam rooms each have a bed, a small desk and a chair.
For example: ネオ, レディース健診クリニック Bene浅草, いしやま矯正歯科, 藤関医院.
A service counter faces a row of waiting chairs, and a flag stands in the corner. Offices open off a corridor.
For example: 佐川急便, 浅草警察署雷門交番, 浅草警察署観音前交番, 日本堤消防署二天門出張所.
Long shelf aisles run the length of the store, stocked with colourful goods. A glowing cooler wall lines the back, and checkout lanes wait near the front.
For example: デイリーヤマザキ, ファミリーマート, マイカイマート ロヂャース, Ozeki.
A front office greets you. Down the corridor, classrooms have rows of small desks all facing a whiteboard, with the teacher's desk in the corner.
For example: 台東区立浅草小学校, 花川戸保育園, 田原幼稚園, 台東区立田原小学校.
It's dim and warm. A long wooden bar runs down one side with stools and a row of beer taps, and backlit shelves of bottles glow amber behind it. Neon strips glow on the back wall, a game plays on a TV, and there's a pool table with the balls racked. Booths fill the other wall.
For example: Bar Calluna, SAMBOA BAR, Jazz Bar Soultrane, Korean Bar Poramu.
A bright counter runs across the back with three registers, and lit menu screens hang above it. Behind the counter you can hear the fryers hiss and the grill sizzle. Two touch-screen kiosks stand near the door, a soda fountain hums along the right wall, and booths line the left wall, with small two-seat tables in the middle.
For example: Shogun Burger Asakusa, 浅草ローカルバーガー（ASAKUSA LOCAL BURGER）, TBD burger, Hamburger Steak Bar.
Exercise mats, barbells and punching bags fill the floor. Dumbbells sit on a rack, and the front desk is by the door.
For example: N-fitness, Anytime Fitness Kuramae, ヨガ教室 Asakusa Yoga 蔵前.
It smells of wood smoke and baking dough. A brick dome oven glows orange at the back with a stack of split logs beside it. Pies sit under glass on the counter, a chalkboard menu hangs on the brick wall, and the tables have red-and-white checked cloths with shakers of chili flakes and parmesan.
For example: Pizza all 500yen, Pizzeria Romano e Marino.
Rows of white front-loading washers line both walls, their round glass doors like portholes. Stacked dryers tumble at the back. A long folding table in the middle has warm clothes on it, a row of plastic chairs waits, and a change machine blinks by the door.
For example: Na Laundry, Best Laundry.
Fluorescent lights hum over narrow aisles packed floor to ceiling with snacks and drinks. Glass-door coolers glow along the back wall. By the register, hot dogs turn on a roller grill under a heat lamp, the slushie machine churns red and blue, and the coffee station smells burnt in the best way.
For example: 出光, Eneos.
Glass display cases glitter with gems under bright lights, more cases line the walls, and the register is at the back.
For example: JEWEL CAFE.
Pedestals with artefacts stand in a grid across the gallery, with benches for resting and an information desk by the door.
For example: Sword Shop & Ninja Experience by Samurai Ninja Museum.
Tall wooden bookcases cover the walls, and tables of new releases are stacked with colourful spines. There's a reading nook with two armchairs, a rug and a standing lamp. The register is by the door, and warm pendant lights hang overhead.
For example: Infinity Books Japan.
A raised stage framed by a proscenium arch has closed red velvet curtains and footlights glowing along its edge. Rows of seats face it.
For example: Theater SPROUT.
Styling chairs line one wall in front of mirrors, waiting chairs sit opposite, and the front counter is by the door.
For example: DogSalon 雅.
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