Shinjuku after dark
Taken from the same location as this prior photo, today’s pic shows a few more buildings on a moonless night.
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Food (and flower) shop in Nishiwaseda
The sign above this ancient business says the business is called Matsuya and the product is food. I walked past this place hundreds of times in Tokyo and never once saw a customer. Occasionally I saw an old person inside, sleeping in a chair waiting for a customer. I wondered how long this store had been there. 40 years? 60 years? Could it have actually survived the war? Probably not. My best guess is that it went up shortly after the war but probably was rebuilt to look just like the pre-war store.
食料品店 means the store sells food; however, the only food-like items are in the vending machines outside the store. All I ever saw were flowers and plants–and not really nice, fresh ones like the other flower stores in Tokyo. These flowers always had an old and about-to-die look, sort of like the rest of the place.
Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building
At one point in time, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was the tallest structure in the world. The Chrysler Building in Manhattan succeeded the Eiffel Tower, but only for a year. The Empire State Building then held the crown.
But today’s photo is more of New York’s Grand Central Station than it is of the Chrysler Building. Finding both of these structures in the same picture is not unusual, but seeing them as you see them here is. In order to get them nearly side-by-side, like this with only the Grand Hyatt in between them, I had to take three, ultra-wide lens captures and stitch them together.
Fancy brothel in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara
In Taito-Ku in Tokyo there remains a pleasure quarter where sex for money isn’t legal, but paying someone to give you a bath for a certain amount of time is. If sex happens during your soaping activities then it is considered consensual and legal. Soaplands (as they are called) aren’t the only such businesses in the area, but it is hard to miss them should you stroll through this part of town (dubbed “Yoshiwara” after the old red light district in Tokyo which no longer exists). When the buildings feature the type of exterior shown in today’s photo they are really, really hard to miss even if you have no idea what is going on inside.
Geisha Quarters – Kanazawa’s Higashi Chayagai (金沢 東茶屋街)
Kanazawa's famous street of tea houses
