• A rainbow appears over Tokyo during a women’s triathalon event in Odaiba Marine Park. Though it doesn’t look like the Olympics will provide the city with any sort of pot of gold, much of Japan was instead satisfied with the record number of gold medals that their country took home from this year’s Games. | REUTERS
    A rainbow appears over Tokyo during a women’s triathalon event in Odaiba Marine Park. Though it doesn’t look like the Olympics will provide the city with any sort of pot of gold, much of Japan was instead satisfied with the record number of gold medals that their country took home from this year’s Games. | REUTERS
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It’s a little past 3 p.m. on Tuesday, two days after the closing ceremony of the Olympics. It’s scorching in Tokyo, the temperature hovering near 35 degrees Celsius.

In Ueno, a bustling working-class area in the northeastern part of the city, pedestrians sweating through their shirts are making their way down the district’s crowded alleys lined with numerous izakaya pubs.

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