What a mess (the rear).
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
a tokyo photolog (my flickr archive, and occasional rant and rave: I have a free flickr acount, and want to keep the pics I have uploaded.)
Fire alarm at a metro/underground/subway station.
Tokyo, Japan
Click on the photo and read the embedded description for language tips.
Minato-ku's symbol, based on the hiragana, み (of みなと く = 港区).
A dogwood blossom for Minato-ku, Tokyo.
In 1915, Japan sent cherry trees to Washington D.C., and the Americans sent dogwood trees to Japan. I heard this is where it started.
Trademark of Enet:
www.enetcom.co.jp/pc_main.html
A sign in front of a convenience store. Tokyo, Japan.
A sticker for a dog owner to show the dog is registered.
If you are interested in kanji (漢字), I reccomend this page:
portal.nifty.com/2006/04/15/c/
There you can see ”つぎへ >" at the bottom right just below a picture. Click on it nine times, they explain how the 犬 letter was born.
But after you see the 犬, basically it's all jokes. The author says "If a dog is represented in this way, how about a cat? A giraff?"
This is next to the previous pic in my photostream.
Not tinted. It was a cloudy evening but the sticker is the same the one below (in March 2006).
www.flickr.com/photos/nofrills/118715590/
The red has gone after one and a half years.