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Marui department store brands itself with plants
Several months ago Marui opened up another department store in Shinjuku san chome, along with at least three other existing ones and retail competition that includes Isetan’s flagship across the...
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Sunflowers by Tokyo Metro station
Recently I was going into the Tokyo Metro station not far from my house, and I noticed a young woman spraying these blooming sunflowers. She explained she was killing bugs, and that she worked at the...
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Wildness beside a busy subway platform
In Yotsuya, the Marunouchi subway pops out of ground in central Tokyo. From the platform, there is this amazing view that includes a still functioning, although rarely used service road, an abandoned...
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Barren space between sidewalk and Roppongi Hills
どうして六本木ヒルズの入り口は死んでいるのだろう？ Why is the entrance to Roppongi Hills so ugly and uninviting? Every time I walk from the subway into Roppongi Hills I am shocked at the extremely ugly first view of this...
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Nanohana (Rapeseed) in subway ad for Izu
渋谷駅で、菜の花のディスプレーが伊豆への電車旅行を宣伝しています。 I was delighted to see these nanohana (菜の花, or rapeseed) flowers in a subway display promoting rail trips to Izu, a subtropical peninsula a few hours from Tokyo....
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Pleasures of Tokyo trains and subways
東京の電車と地下鉄は分け合う空間です。時々、居心地の悪いときもありますが、いつも東京的で面白いと思います。 It’s hard for people outside Tokyo to imagine what using Tokyo transit is like. The busiest station, Shinjuku station, handles over 2.5 million...
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Leap Day snow falling on the Sobu line train
うるう年の２月２９日は雪がたくさん降っていました。いつも行く東京の道や場所を、新鮮な目で見たかったです。総武線のホームから。 Leap Day in Tokyo saw a surprising amount of snow, falling in large gobs from the sky and from roofs. Someone tipped me off that the...
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Iconic New York City human landscapes
ニューヨークの人類風景は珍しくて古いです。いつもうるさくて攻撃的なのに、さまざまな人たちがいて、それぞれのスタイルがあります。８６番ストリートとレキシントン通りの地下鉄のホームと歩道の果物売りです。 I took both of these photos on 86th Street near Lexington. This sidewalk fruit stand, an elderly...
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Back to business in Tokyo after the new year
お正月が終わったら、日常生活が戻ります。このメトロの写真に、男性はみんな黒いスーツを来ているので、庭のより東京人のほうがもっと型にはまっていると思います。 Uniformity and order can be even more stylized in Tokyo human environments than gardens. How is it that every passenger in...
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