[Aga-chan]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

"People on the outside don’t know
the cruelty lurking deep within the so-called cuteness"

Yeah, I think it's definitely Tokyo. But you could probably interpret it for New York or other cities too perhaps.

I don't think any other city is as much associated with cuteness as Tokyo. Perhaps translating "kawaii" as pretty or lovely would make it more universal. But the lyrics kind of have a "looking at Tokyo/Japan from the outside" feel to them, so I don't think that making them universal would be the way to go.

And Japanese people do indeed use "machi" when they talk about Tokyo etc. Though they usually use 街 instead of 町.