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Girls ♥ Pasta
Cashing in on fear
Taken in the electronics district ("electric city") of Tokyo, these shop-owners were pretty...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Replica of first Japanese television
This was at the NHK broadcasting museum, a must-visit and not just for geeks. They had a mock-up studio...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
"The haircut will take ten minutes"
Automated barbering. There were a number of these in the various cities we visited, all with the same...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Cute character
Every product, shop, etc seems to have a cute character to advertise it. Common choices are: ducks, platypuses, penguins, pandas, monkeys.
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Plastic food
Pretty much all restaurants provide this little dioramas to entice you in. They also help bridge the...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Fuji poking out
As viewed from Hakone. Weather was pretty bad so that was about as good as the view got.
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Save power and carry on
The latest appropriation of the "Keep calm…" poster. Some escalators, streetlights and...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
Swan heads
These used to be attached to swan-shaped boats and have a strange, wistful quality. Well I think so, anyway.
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011
