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Jul 17 2009 3 Comments

Particularly poor Tokyo playground

The local authority may well have finally seen the light and closed down the playground pictured below (or at least put posters up proclaiming so), but the kids that used to play there definitely didn’t, as built under a busy bridge it is dark,

Tokyo playground

dingy,

Tokyo playground

and more than a little dank.

Tokyo playground

Although it does have that dinosaur.

Tokyo playground

And a not quite so mobile phone if things had got too melancholy.

Tokyo playground

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  1. Liv says

    7/18/2009 at 12:59 am

    Wow. I saw some pretty awful “playgrounds” in Osaka but nothing that bad. Those images actually depressed me. Back to thinking about cupcakes now.

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  2. The Envoy says

    7/19/2009 at 6:29 pm

    Was the purple dinosaur a reference to Barney?

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    • Lee says

      7/20/2009 at 11:14 am

      Possibly, although they may well have chosen purple to try and make it stand out a bit in the semi-darkness….

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