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Mar 02 2009 5 Comments

Japanese workers working #6

Or more accurately, Japanese workers waiting for work.

Japanese rickshaw

Walking to work.

Japanese rickshaw

And finally, after way more waiting and walking than they would want, walking and working.

Japanese rickshaw

(click images for higher-res rickshaws)

Categorized: Culture, Photography

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  1. Neil Duckett says

    3/2/2009 at 11:29 am

    I went to Asakasa a few weeks back …. some great photo opportunities with the traditional transport.

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  2. Kesenaitsumi says

    3/2/2009 at 2:02 pm

    wonder why they wearing that hat….??

    Hehe,wish I can ride on one of these somedays.

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  3. andru says

    3/3/2009 at 12:26 am

    Never saw one when I was in Japan

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  4. SovietRussia says

    3/4/2009 at 4:20 am

    Anyone notice the face mask the woman in the background of the third picture is wearing?

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  5. Sam says

    5/20/2015 at 4:55 pm

    anyone know the name of this specific kind of rickshaw hat? The rounded sun hat style. seems to have been very common to rickshaw workers many many decades ago.

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