Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Random Photos 2: You Know You're In Japan When...


I was handed this magazine at the corner in Nihonbashi. I guess they're tackling their declining population problem head-on. That, or they're taking Confucian ideals to a new extreme.


Buy our credit card and you too can be an effeminate man dressed in purple drinking champagne!


FINAL FANTASY!


The Asahi Beer building. You can see that the building kind of resembles a giant beer...and the golden object next to it? Who knows? My guidebook simply says it's "an adjacent big golden object."


A women-only subway car. These were set up during certain peak hours to minimize the problem of groping (gropers are called chikan, [痴漢]).


They dress up statues in colorful clothes. Not sure why.


Subway pandas with lots of advice!

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