Shibuya
Shibuya Station Live
Around the railway stations at night in Japan, you often see the live street performers take up a position and play for the crowd. Some of these…
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Shibuya
Shibuya Streets Vol. 2
It's been a while since we have had a Shibuya Streets series. The weekends are always busy with foot traffic and with a spare hour, I took a walk out to…
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Old Shibuya Photos
The area around Shibuya station is well known to the millions of people who flow through the train station. What is not so well known by all those people…
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Railway Construction
There has been a lot of railway construction going on recently around Shibuya station. The Fukutoshin （副都心線） line construction was completed between Wako…
Trains & Transport
Elevator Manners
It is always good to see workers of large corporations taking the initiative themselves. It looks like at Shibuya station, they decided there was a need…
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Shibuya afternoon
Great weather today and the crowds were out in Shibuya. As well as the many couples, tourists and others, the Hot Pepper mascot was out and about…
Trains & Transport
Japan Railways
While out the other day at Ikspiari, Maihama, next to DisneyLand, I found a store that specialized in model railway parts, bus models and generally all…
Marketing
What's GREE?
As you can see by these photos, there is a big advertising campaign at Shibuya station for the service called GREE. It is a Japanese based social…
Trains & Transport
Station Concert
Passing through Shinkiba station (新木場) I saw this classical music concert inside the station building. What a great idea. If you cant get the people to…
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Visit to Rilakkuma Store
I went to the Rilakkuma store at Tokyo Station a week ago and finally have got around to posting the photos from the visit. I went on a weekend and the…
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Quick Shots of Shibuya
A few quick shots of the area around Shibuya Station on a beautiful Spring morning. Always a lot of people about near the Scramble Crossing, morning and…
Trains & Transport
No more Smoking at stations
It's April 1st tomorrow, the start of the new financial year, and JR East are putting into practice their new policy of no smoking at stations in central…
Trains & Transport
JR keyrings
Found these great JR keyring chains with the station names on. The design is the same as the real display sign at the station. The product has been around…
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Rilakkuma store @ Tokyo Station
For all those fans of Rilakkuma you will be pleased to hear they are opening a store at Tokyo Station on the 20th of February. Here is a snapshot of the…
Marketing
Shibuya sells off toilets to highest biddders
In order to raise cash for the local Shibuya area, the Shibuya Council ward have decided to sell the naming rights to 14 public toilet locations in…
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Tissues and promotions
If you pass through Shibuya then you invariably will see or receive those free tissues offering easy loans or promotion material from those such as the…
