I pass by this sign for a love hotel every night walking to the train sation from work. The actual hotel is a big monstrosity by a dirty river but I really like the neon sign that points to it.
The area where it is is close to a big racetrack, I assume the old [...]
One of my favourite places to go to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo is Kudanshita. The station is always packed and it takes an age to get up the stairs, but once you emerge it’s full on sakura. There’s a beautiful moat around what was once part of the Emperors palace, and a grassy [...]
Last weekend there was crazy wind and rain all over Tokyo. After visiting a friend, we had to take a long detour through the Tokyo underground to get back. In one of the stations (maybe Kayabacho) they’d rigged up a drip to stop the water falling from the ceiling onto the platform and causing accidents. [...]
I’ve been wanting to go the Pecha Kucha Night in Tokyo since I heard about the concept. They accept presentations on just about any topic, and everyone has just 6 minutes to present a talk with 20 slides. You can talk about whatever you like, but everyone tends to talk about slightly artistic stuff.
Since it [...]
A couple of odd stickers I noticed while cycling. They were tiny and old and the only reason I even saw them was because the traffic light was red. When I showed it to someone to translate, she told me it gave off a bad feeling. It looks like a voodoo sticker to me. The [...]
On a walk around the streets of Akihabara, away from the electronics shops and on one of the big roads I came across this strange bicycle drawn cart. It looks like a homeless person’s mobile home, with all the possessions in the back. On each side, there was a handwritten poster with various messages. Above [...]
I’ve been looking lots at the rubbish areas around where I live. The ones along this main road are kept immaculately clean, the the various bags for separating trash rolled up and put in plastic pipes when they’re not in use. In the danchi, things are different. There’s an area where everyone from one block [...]
Here’s an old abandoned cigarette shop I came across on the road between Hasama and Funabashi. It looks like it’s been this way for years, but the price of a pack of cigs written on the poster is ¥240, so it can’t be that old. Now a pack is somewhere around ¥320 I think.
The location [...]
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