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City of Demons and Spirits. Urban magic mixed up with a thousand people's lives and stories. This is what Babylonic Tokyo surrounds you with once you get into the TB world. The world where Subaru, Seishirou and Hokuto walk their different paths. The world where these three angels' stories begins.
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"An Ancient city built in Mesopotamia. Since Hamurabi, King of Babylonia, had located the capital there in the 18th century B.C., the city flourished as a center of politics and culture. But they were haughty about the glory, and thought mankind is much the same as God, they built a heaven-kissing tower called Babel. God, the absolute being, could not tolerate the deed, so they lost the common language as the punishment from God alighted on the tower. It is the evidence of the folly which man ceaselessly repeats because he is human.
Woe betide Babylon, the city which incurred the wrath of God."

Tokyo Babylon Photographs, inner covers.
Ever wondered why CLAMP picked up Babylon and not any other ancient city like Sodome or Gomora to put it side by side with modern Tokyo? I guess the answer lies in the fact Babylon was not only a city of sin, unjustice and horror, but also appeared to be one of the most beautiful and fascinating metropolis of the ancient era.
Famous for it's art and architechtonic beauty, Babylon always seems to be the portrait of the perfect city: where their citizens discovered the astronomic sciences and the birth of ancient economy and art, but it's also known as a place of vice, evil and the so called 'sexual pervertions' as some narrow-minded idiots consider homosexuality to be (something that almost seems to be a direct alusion to Subaru and Seishirou's relationship). Seen in that way, it seems to be the perfect prototype of the charming and deceiving Tokyo CLAMP wishes to portrait in TB.

Sakurazuka Veterinary Clinic
Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku.
The twins spend most of their free time visiting Seishirou here, so Subaru can go petting around some of his beloved's patients. It's one of the prime sets for both 'Destiny' and 'Call'.
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Seishirou's Place
Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku.
Seishirou's bachelor appartment above the Clinic. And when I say 'bachelor' I mean small, confortable and neat ^_^ 'Crime' and 'Save' give us spotlights of the place.
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Ikebukuro Station
Ikebukuro center.
One of the most important scenes of Tokyo Babylon, Subaru and Seishirou's second meeting, takes place here, as featured in 'Destiny' and 'End'.
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Tokyo Tower
The very symbol of Tokyo city, the Tower is the one seting where 'Babel' takes places, and is one of the many paralelisms with ancient Babylon and the Babel Tower.
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Ueno Park
Ueno.
Maybe the most important of all TB settings, this beautiful park is not only where Subaru and Seishirou met for the first time, but also where the ancient Sakura Barrow, the Sakurazukamori's symbol, rises. It is depicted in 'Destiny', 'Pair' and 'End'.
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Others:
Shinjuku General Hospital
Sunshine International Aquarium
Sumeragi Mansion
Karaoke Box
Yasukuni Shinto Temple
Ebisu General Hospital
MS Institute
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