into the museum...
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
19 October 2004
historical showcase
bookstore 8
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
This store has a stockpile of historical maps and printings. Not an ordinary used book store but a collectable-lovers friendly one.
Iwanami Bunko (Iwanami paperbacks series)
bookstore 5
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
This is Iwanami series, which is equivalent to Penguin series or something, I think. The colour represents categories; green in Japanese literature, pink is Western literature, etc.
used bookstore in Kanda-Jinbo-cho
bookstore 2
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Kanda-Jinbo-cho, 10 mins walk from Kudanshita, is clammed with used book stores.
new building
new building
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
There's a huge newly-built glass-and-steel building around the corner of the old one with a PACE flag on its wall. I think this modern one is part of a university.
pace
pace
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
There's a "PACE" flag on the building wall. (PACE means PEACE.)
old building
old building
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
One of the oldest buildings in this area, Kudanshita Building. Built just after the Big Quake in 1923. Not many of the buildings around and before this period remain in Tokyo because of the air raids in WW II and the scrap-and-built policies after the war.
big lanturn
big lanturn
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
It reads "Yasukuni-dori shoten-gai rengo-kai," which means "Commercial Shops Coalition along Yasukuni Street."
street and highway
street and highway
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Central Tokyo doesn't have much sky, but has a lot of highways.
18 October 2004
sign on the floor
sign on the floor
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Tube networks are so complicated in Tokyo that sometimes you need this kind of sign on the floor.
priority seat
priority seat
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Every train in Tokyo has "priority seats". I like these signs.
door sticker
door sticker
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
They say, "Please inform the station stuff or train crew immediately if you notice any suspicious unclaimed objects or persons in the station or on the train. Thank you for your cooperation." ... "any suspicious unclaimed PERSONS"!!
do-not-run sign
do-not-run sign
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
I am at a tube (subway) station in my neighbourhood, and I'm not running.
Kabuki on TV 4
Kabuki on TV 4
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
One night, I was playing with my camera and there was a Kabuki dancing show going on.
To see all the Kabuki-on-TV photos (there are five of them), visit my flickr site.
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