here is a video showing how to behave in and around a sushi-ya (haha)

flowers on your path –
on a rainy day in sf, some rainy memories from nagasaki, and from asakusa/tokyo…

…modernization is on the way.

kanji-detective yo: “three-spring-push-cheap”…? does this gas station advertize its inexpensive gasoline “pushing out of 3 sources” i.e. regular, super and diesel?

…many thanks to akira kobayashi for clarification: what looks like 3 separate characters at the top, is actually one single kanji, with its components forcefully spaced apart: “geki” = violent, severe, intense, furious: aggressive pricing, coloring and spacing…

(western type designers: try to letterspace *inside* each letter…)

no, you can’t put all those wires underground; there’s already too many subways and shopping malls down there (^^)

controls to adjust your comfort level in trains of czechia, france, germany.
why did the germans have to stick a lightbulb icon on top of a lightbulb icon?

pictures I took in the summer 2002 in japan: no multiple exposure or photoshop at work.