We had a great trip to an advertising museum today, at Shimbashi, but no photos allowed. I have some images that I'll try to post--the museum was fascinating, and full of great imagery--but that will have to wait. Here are some images from the surrounding area, beginning with our street, as viewed from the bridge we cross every day. The large "n" shaped building is next to ours, an office building: our apartments are in the building just beyond that.
In the base of the large "n" shaped building is the convenience store we all regularly visit. Convenience stores here are consistently clean, well-organized, and well-stocked. You can buy a men's dress shirt at this one if you need to.
And the nearest fastfood restaurant, just two blocks away. It's Japanese fast food, with an elaborate picture menu of some 60 possibilities, mostly involving variations on meat, rice, noodles and side vegetables. I ate here today: a fried chicken patty on a few strands of spaghetti, a side dish of rice, some pickle, and a tiny thimble-full of potato salad...all with a bit of soy sauce and the favorite condiment of all, spicy mayonnaise.
Our street:
Above, the street we cross daily on the way to the train station (about four or five long blocks from the apartment building).
We pass two construction sites on the way to the station, marked with the above sign. If you think you're going to see a lot of physical labor up close, think again. Below is one of the sites: a building being carefully taken down, any reusable material sorted and recycled. So no trucks hauling away material--in fact, I've seen no trucks around at all, because the sorting of material has to happen first. What's more interesting is that pedestrians are protected from this activity, visually and physically, by a huge shield put around the building. You can see this in the picture below, and at street level (see two pictures below), the shield is beautified with flowers. And one additional element: the well uniformed official who maintains order, and sometimes (as on Sunday mornings) will bow to passers-by in a sort of apology for the inconvenience.
In the base of the large "n" shaped building is the convenience store we all regularly visit. Convenience stores here are consistently clean, well-organized, and well-stocked. You can buy a men's dress shirt at this one if you need to.
And the nearest fastfood restaurant, just two blocks away. It's Japanese fast food, with an elaborate picture menu of some 60 possibilities, mostly involving variations on meat, rice, noodles and side vegetables. I ate here today: a fried chicken patty on a few strands of spaghetti, a side dish of rice, some pickle, and a tiny thimble-full of potato salad...all with a bit of soy sauce and the favorite condiment of all, spicy mayonnaise.
Our street:
Above, the street we cross daily on the way to the train station (about four or five long blocks from the apartment building).
We pass two construction sites on the way to the station, marked with the above sign. If you think you're going to see a lot of physical labor up close, think again. Below is one of the sites: a building being carefully taken down, any reusable material sorted and recycled. So no trucks hauling away material--in fact, I've seen no trucks around at all, because the sorting of material has to happen first. What's more interesting is that pedestrians are protected from this activity, visually and physically, by a huge shield put around the building. You can see this in the picture below, and at street level (see two pictures below), the shield is beautified with flowers. And one additional element: the well uniformed official who maintains order, and sometimes (as on Sunday mornings) will bow to passers-by in a sort of apology for the inconvenience.
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