Come spring 2000, REI will open, in Tokyo of all places, a 30, 000-square-foot version of its Seattle showplace.

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Tokyo will be home to a 2, 800-square-meter version of REI's Seattle showplace.

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He rents an 1, 800-square-foot apartment--middle class by Tokyo standards--with his wife and three sons.

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That worked out to 10.8 million yen a square meter of land, the seventh-highest price paid for a Tokyo site.

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But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.

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