Tokyo Times

Due to Tokyo boasting more shops than even the most committed consumer could care for, pulling in the punters is paramount, with most retailers, particularly in the current economic climate, deeming it desirable to have a wonderfully designed window display or at least a super sounding sale of some sort.

Yet that said, one or two proprietors are apparently not interested in such subtleties, and instead are happy to simply paint their emporium with a dinosaur-based abomination and have done with it.

After one or two frustrating false starts, the capital’s blossoms just about hit their fabled full bloom over the weekend, meaning that any Tokyo tree with a pink tint was positively teeming with people intent on a good time.

An occasion that involved a fair bit of folk,

a phenomenal amount of food,

and even larger volumes of lager which, at lunch time at least, was too much for those traditionally teetotal.

Others, however, were more intent on picking a place more peaceful,

while some were simply having none of the silliness as they’d seen it all before.

Who she was waiting for or what she was thinking about is anybody’s guess, although it’s perfectly possible she was pondering the same things about the person impertinently taking her picture.

Perhaps.

Modern Japanese apartments may well be largely light and less than lacking in the latest goods and gadgetry, but their considerably older and less cared for cousins are often dark and decidedly deficient in devices,

with the more basic even boasting barely enough room to dangle a similarly decaying doll.