The image itself is black and white, but the young woman’s expression is much more of a grey area.
Disappearing Tokyo places, and people
Last month, I posted a series of photos documenting the demise and pre-demolition abandonment of an old Tokyo danchi, or social housing complex. A sight that signalled the ageing nature of the buildings, as well as the generation that first moved into them.
Photos that fortunately were taken at just the right time, as the fences are now up, meaning the end of a certain era really is nigh.
A quiet Sunday morning in suburban Tokyo
A quizzical stare, supermarket bread rolls, and the oddly reassuring ordinariness of suburban Tokyo on a quiet Sunday morning.
More defunct Japanese vending machines
Back in February, I wrote this to accompany a series of photographs depicting some long-defunct vending machines:
“Japan is well known for its vending machines. With good reason too, as despite the ever-increasing number of convenience stores, the vending machine is still ubiquitous. Yet seeing one that’s no longer operational, let alone left to rot, is surprisingly rare.”
The ubiquity of such machines, of course, is most definitely still true, but the rarity of busted and forlorn looking examples, it turns out, is very much open to debate, as on walks in the last month, I’ve had the genuine pleasure of seeing the sad beauties below.
Which way now in Tokyo?
