The formal — not to mention timeless — beauty of an official Japanese wedding photograph. All perfectly choreographed in the equally timeless and beautiful surroundings of a Tokyo shrine.
A formal Japanese wedding photograph
Hell is other people
And shopping.
Tokyo’s most inappropriately named building?
Inappropriately named buildings, and in particular apartment blocks, are common in Tokyo. Invariably in a foreign language, they are presumably designed to give the structure a certain amount of style and modernity. Possibly even sophistication. A peculiar practice I personally gained experience of very soon after arriving here, as the first place I properly called my own was somewhat ludicrously called, Maison D’or. The monicker so utterly unsuited to the obscenely cold, one step above camping accommodation it actually was, that simply just Maison would have been overly grand.
And yet even that arguably pales into insignificance when compared with this preposterously named place.
Tokyo street food and drinks
On a warm weekend afternoon, some outdoor food is very welcome. Even more so if there are drinks involved. And sometimes, the more slapdash the surroundings, the better.
Busty robots on the streets of Tokyo
Over the last few years or so, much has been made of Japan’s investment in robot technology. Cutting-edge machines that are designed to help care for and comfort the growing elderly population. A vast array of others that’ll do the jobs of countless humans. Plus the odd one or two that despite massive outlays seem to do little more than dance — badly.
These busty behemoths, however, have been created to do nothing more than entertain. And that they most certainly do, in a suitably bawdy manner.
