This is it. A moment of idle contemplation at the center of all that is Japan. The Kilometre Zero marker at Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
One of the most impressive sites in Tokyo is Shibuya crossing. A thousand people cross the street every time the light turns green. A site repeated, although to a slightly lesser degree, at [...]
I have no aversion to trees but I tend to avoid the more rural areas of Japan. Even the parks in Tokyo I’ve been avoiding for some time. Not that I dislike them, I just jones for the Kafka-esc streets of downtown Tokyo a bit more than I do for parks.
In 2007, a friend of [...]
Last year, I met an architect whose name is Tetsuo. Maybe you’ve seen his most recent achievement: a newly constructed building on the Waseda University campus. He showed me a brochure of the building, something akin to the Death Star, all black-shiny metal and concrete. He was so proud. I’m sure it will serve the [...]
A year or so ago I was hanging out in Kanda, on the east side of town, when I found these lantern-signs all over the area. Not something I would see on the west side, where I live, and though I had lived in the east before I somehow missed them. I was inspired to [...]
