| Summary: | In highly industrialized and institutionalized societies
aiming for maximum efficiency, individual activities must
be synchronized with the daily rhythms of a city. As a
spatial and institutional realm, the city imposes on people
and influences their level of attachment, consequently
altering their sense of home. This is most obvious in
contemporary cities, where daily life involves movement,
and where rest is often sought outside the living place,
while on the move. By examining the spatial and temporal
aspects of mobility of young Tokyo residents, this article
explores how their sense of home and levels of attachment
to the physical environment are affected by the city. It
reveals a dynamic sense of home in which routes are more
significant than roots and in which attachment is not
restricted to a single location. Instead, it is understood
as attachment to temporal and spatial relationships produced
by the activities of people and institutions.
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