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Oct 08 2007 6 Comments

Tokyo traffic cone transgressions

Except for the odd furtive fiddle on a train, drink-related transgressions in Tokyo are generally not too much of a problem, although it does appear that traffic cone tomfoolery after one or two too many is just as popular in the Japanese capital as it is in my native Britain.

traffic cone high jinks

An issue that the Japanese authorities have rather surprisingly tried to stamp out with the introduction of truly colossal cones.

Japanese traffic cone

Objects of such humongous proportions in fact that they are more akin to the size of a house than a hat, resulting in these two in downtown Shibuya — near the station and on a busy thoroughfare — commanding suitably sizeable rents.

Japanese traffic cone

Categorized: Food and Drink, General

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  1. Bunny says

    10/8/2007 at 9:40 pm

    Hilarious… if a little cone-y!

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  2. Chris says

    10/10/2007 at 12:36 am

    haha… that was good for a laugh. The cone on Wellington really has become something of an icon of the randomness of Glasgow. I can understand the Japanese view on nonconformity, but those cones are mad!! lol

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  3. Brett says

    10/10/2007 at 4:59 pm

    Even Alan Partridge would have struggled to get that one home

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  4. an englishman in osaka says

    10/16/2007 at 4:59 pm

    There’s probably some drunk salarymen underneath those cones, wearing them as hats.

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  5. Big G says

    10/18/2007 at 12:22 am

    I work next to the Wellington statue – the horse had a cone on its head too the other day.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/63509387@N00/1601169342/

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  6. Kody says

    10/19/2007 at 6:30 pm

    I know a guy from Glasgow who makes traffic cone hats. Always popular with the tourists.

    http://www.myspace.com/glasgowhat

    if you’re interested

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