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Nov 20 2017 8 Comments

Tokyo public telephone performance

You put your right leg in,
Your right leg out:
In, out, in, out.
You shake it all about.

tokyo public telephone exercise

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  1. Coli says

    11/20/2017 at 11:36 am

    Did he step on something or was he trying to tell you to not take his picture by kicking at you?:)

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    • Lee says

      11/20/2017 at 9:12 pm

      Happily it was neither. Rather he was in the middle of a really quite elaborate exercise routine. An oddly public spot for such a thing, but clearly he didn’t care in the slightest!

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  2. Denton says

    11/20/2017 at 4:49 pm

    Funny! 🙂 Cool to see different kinds of folk shot in the same location. You go there a lot huh? Is it near your house?

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    • Lee says

      11/20/2017 at 9:14 pm

      It’s definitely a good spot. But nah, not hear home as such, but it is where I often get the train either to, or from home.

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  3. cdilla says

    11/20/2017 at 5:53 pm

    I love that alcove and the random life-slices you photograph within it. The multi-hued glazed/varnished bricks, the pink granite table, the lime green phones, the inset, bright lighting, all make for a great stage to frame for us.
    I think the guy is relieving a cramp, but his eyes have caught the red trim on the trainers and the line between the two perfectly balances the scene for me.

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    • Lee says

      11/20/2017 at 9:17 pm

      Likewise. A genuinely interesting little spot, and one that has been kind to me over the years. I really hope those phones stay there…

      As I mentioned above, he was exercising, but the effort he was putting in may well have resulted in cramp!

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  4. Karl says

    11/20/2017 at 8:08 pm

    He’s doing the Hokey Pocky!

    It’s odd to see pay phones in a country as wirelessly connected as Japan (better than the U.S.). I think he’s just stretching or exercising. My sense is people in Japan are more apt to do exercise spontaneously in public than people in the U.S.

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    • Lee says

      11/20/2017 at 9:19 pm

      Haha!

      That’s very true. Still surprised at the amount of stretching that goes on in public here. This fella has gone way beyond that though, as this was the end of what seemed like a pretty full on workout.

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