Hitotoki.org has just pre-launched. This is a co-lab born collaboration between Chin Music Press and Tokyo based web design firm AQ.

The goal is simple: "to trace a narrative map of Tokyo through personal accounts from curious outsiders."

We've noticed there are these strange pockets of memory one develops in a city like Tokyo. Memories that are wholly linked to a certain place — be it an out of the way convenience store you happened to pass one night years ago, a spot in a park you saw a particularly unusual homeless man and now remember every time you pass it, a seat at a diner you had tea and omelets at after a long night of college drinking, a canned coffee machine down a back-alley you stopped at for a drink a few days after arriving in the city. For whatever reasons, these small, private moments have become linked with those places.

We're all building these memory maps, for better or worse, when we visit or choose to live in a city like Tokyo. Hitotoki is looking to take some of those memories mapped to specific places and present them to readers. Hopefully they'll combine to provide a more intimate, interesting and ultimately deeper view of both the city and the people that choose to inhabit it.

If you've ever been to Tokyo or currently reside here, feel free to grab a submissions form and shoot something over. We're looking for short narratives (200-500 words).