Tokyo bizarreness 2
10/26/05
I'm going to assume that these are not selling dog and cat meat. Chukagai, Yokohama.
These utterly mystified me, but turn out to be places to post election posters. Kikuna, Yokohama.
No discernible connection to America. Shinjuku.
Even weirder than these and these. Naka-Meguro.
Doing the impossible, like this establishment. Naka-Meguro.
Specially grown gift fruit. $146 for the canteloupes on the left; $183 for the ones on the right. Ikebukuro.
Panda eating panda-shaped cream puff. Harajuku (where else?).
This sign says: if you drop something on the train tracks, don't get it yourself; get a railroad employee to pick it up. Harajuku.
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"Hyper Convenience" - there is something about that phrase that I both love and fear.
Posted by: reuben at October 26, 2005 11:29 AM
Hyper Have Nice Day Happy Time This No Library!
Posted by: Mr. Sparkle at October 26, 2005 06:39 PM
lol@kantacky fried chicken photo logs etc... heheheheh :-)
Posted by: koekoepeollie at October 26, 2005 11:32 PM
Love your site!
Keiko Sato
Japanese-Experts.com
Posted by: Keiko Sato at November 1, 2005 03:55 AM
Looks like the price is rising!
http://danbennett.blogspot.com/2005/10/10-000-japanese-yen-864977-us-dollars.html
Posted by: dan bennett at November 7, 2005 05:05 PM
Please dont stop the chicken madness amidst the birdflus goins-on, we love the laughters, we got our shots but only good for regular flus, when is the next bird due for post? LOL!
Posted by: WDS at December 3, 2005 05:07 PM
i want that panda
Posted by: chris at December 25, 2005 08:58 PM
very nice photo
Posted by: SILLE KUMAR at March 25, 2006 11:23 PM
Since I visited your site, I have been looking at prices of coffee and fruit in Tokyo. The prices are actually going up!
When I visted America last summer, I was surprised at the cost of apples in Seattle.
The apples in Tokyo are about $5.00 to about $6.50 if you get the real good ones.
However, in Seattle - I bought an entire bag of the same kind of apples ( 20 in a bag ) for only $3.49.
I ate all the apples myself.
Now I can see that Tokyo is really crazy with pricing and quality.
Posted by: Keiko Sato at March 28, 2006 10:09 PM
i really like your pictures. i live in tokyo and you realy super captured the cute, crazy signs. and you were rolling all around my neighborhood (toyoko line). who are you and why are you so down?
Posted by: nicole at May 31, 2006 10:00 AM
Hah! And there's chicken in here as well!
There is a little fast-food type restaurant in downtown Chicago called "Shinjuku station" for no apparent reason whatsoever, alas I don't have a picture, but it's sort of the reverse, I suppose.
Posted by: akibare at July 7, 2006 02:15 AM
I like the coffee house. The gothic font, Elizabethan portrait, mullioned windows and name from Classical mythology all add up to a kind of 16'th/17'th century English coffee house (and these did exist, all over London, they were called "penny universities" because the intelligentsia of Enlightenment-era London hung out there, and the price for a cup was a penny.) This was probably a conscious decision, which is why the addition of "Fried Chicken" is so incongruous.
Posted by: Holdiay Hawk at February 6, 2007 07:46 PM
Hello!
From México city...thanks a lot for shering!!
good luck on your next trip!!
S
Posted by: sofia at April 12, 2007 01:28 PM
I have bookmarked your site brah. Very few sites that really catch my attention. I'm lovin it... peace.
Rock
Hayward, CA