Praying for health.
And quite possibly, hair.
Praying for health and hair?
Photography
Cat on a hot autumn afternoon
This time of year is wonderful in Tokyo. The summer humidity is a semi-distant memory, but the cold of winter is still a little way off. And, when it’s as bright and warm as it has been over the last few days, it’s even better. Perfect weather in fact for a long and satisfying sleep in the sun. An indulgence that could only be bettered by not being so rudely interrupted.
Confined to a tiny kiosk, on a train station platform, in Tokyo
Convenience stores are so common in Tokyo that they make the likes of even Starbucks seem scarce. Or at least they do in some places. Like near train stations for example, where it’s very rare indeed to step outside and not find at least one fantastically stocked and forever open 7-Eleven or Sunkus.
Yet despite this, along with the ever-present and even more multitudinous vending machine, many train station platforms still have their own stores. Horribly confined little cubicles that afford the staff barely enough room to move, let alone have a moment to themselves. Plus if they are underground like this one, there isn’t even the simple pleasure of some fresh air.
An unsettlingly lifelike Japanese scarecrow
There are numerous photographs of Japanese scarecrows on this site. Some of them are really quite disturbing. Whereas others are downright wrong. But this one is arguably something else altogether, as it almost seems sentient.
Toothy Japanese grin x 2
There’s only one thing more endearing than a big toothy grin, and that’s two toothy grins.
