59. A handle to help you sit down and get up, plus a little notch for your… cane, I think?pic.twitter.com/DkEgVUXHo7
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68. The circle of life is universal, I suppose? (I read this top to bottom: Friends abandon you when you have a kid, your kids grow up, eventually you die and they take over.)pic.twitter.com/9IGNZJVV5Q
69. This ATM has a hook where you can hang your groceries or bags for the duration of the interaction. Nice.pic.twitter.com/7qCCIkQmYc
70. On a whim I followed the arrow to see the line of gingko trees. The line of gingko trees held a surprise.pic.twitter.com/pg4ogsZOeP
71. Akihabara, or Electric Town, a Tokyo area filled with electronic and special interest stores. It’s a bunch of city blocks that look like this. I don’t think I know how to explain how much of an assault on senses this was.pic.twitter.com/pBSd2xGwur
72. The huge stores (many with names having “Camera” in them?) are multi-floor shrines to personal electronics, with unprecedented to me density. If I was a kid, I think I would just live here. This would be my Terminal.pic.twitter.com/QG5CzeHzNy
73. And there’s hundreds (?) more tiny stores, like this unassuming electronics one where I saw… * pause for dramatic effect * …SONY’S FIRST EVER WALKMAN!pic.twitter.com/hGCRULR2Cj
74. My brain is still recovering, so I’ll leave you with this video of trains going in and out of the station. I watched them to relax, although there was rarely a time where there was no moving train in sight.pic.twitter.com/In8T4xF5Ie
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(Love how many people are like “don’t leave without buying X from a vending machine.” So now I have my life’s first vending machine to-do list.)pic.twitter.com/Y1bDLEVU96
75. Speaking of recommendations, this matter-of-fact one from a grocery store made me smile. “Best.”pic.twitter.com/wiZNrAYA06
(Despite best efforts of new hotel translators and three different iPhone apps, my room momentarily became sauna. But I actually really, really like trying to figure the Japanese language out on my own!)pic.twitter.com/xiLEoVz96l
77. An interesting way to wrap a magazine to prevent you from reading it in a store! And yes, this does appear to be a magazine about spreadsheets?pic.twitter.com/JYbzonzMvl
78. It seems that construction sites are supposed to tell you ahead about their work schedule for the week? Some of those displays are even electronic! (I drew the complicated one on my trackpad. It says 解体工事: demolition work. February 4 is Sunday = no construction.)pic.twitter.com/aVUnNHaP2a
79. I liked this little drawing on the door in between subway cars. (And infinite bendy subway cars where you can move in between without the fear of falling off the train.)pic.twitter.com/Hl2e3IBcDy
80. Water fountains in subway stations! (Fun moment elsewhere: A nice lady tried to help me when lost, and I said “subway” and then tried to visualize it with my arm going underground, after which she asks “metro?” and I’m like “I’m European! Why on earth didn’t I say that?!”)pic.twitter.com/YLWH4lQy9R
81. The subway very often tells you how far things are, exactly.pic.twitter.com/fLCFv540eD
82. This anthropomorphized, walking, smoking forbidden sign (with dead eyes) is lovely, and also conceptually really confusing, and also I hope it gets its own TV show.pic.twitter.com/HcTnpoR9aI
(Amidst all this, I actually wonder how much stuff I’m *missing* because I sadly know so very little about the language and the culture.)
83. American hotels often have bibles, this is what I found in the new one I’m in. (However, this is not typical. I just learned, post factum, that by visiting this hotel I put money in the pocket of a person who’s looking like Japan’s Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Motoya … :·/ )pic.twitter.com/k14QOntT86
84. A 100 yen shop! I wonder how similar it is to dollar stores in America…pic.twitter.com/lz5bLYek0Z
85. A used electronics store where everything’s shrink-wrapped, which was… eerie. (Also, not an expert, but I haven’t seen this type of PlayStation before.)pic.twitter.com/ZIVM9e5QHk
86. If you told young me “you’ll lose some of your hair and some of your ideals, but you will one day spend some time going through boxes and boxes of Sony remotes,” I would be like WHERE’S THE EXPRESS LANE.pic.twitter.com/dcgkndLXvt
87. Super cute little 1980s electronic watch in the shape of a Japanese personal computer.pic.twitter.com/efYkh1OGjc
88. Speaking of which, who challenged the gaming store clerk to a game of Mario Kart… and won!? Of course not me. Jesus. It took me like 20 minutes to work up the nerve to press Oscillate.pic.twitter.com/rDRLCybDqH
89. Spotted this a second after I finished a hot shower with my door open. (There must be a name for this kind of a situation, as it happens to me all the time…)pic.twitter.com/Y7vQ47enek
90. Spotted a few semi-automatic sliding doors that open, but only if you press the button located in the middle (and sometimes the buttons are only on one side, and the other direction is fully automatic).pic.twitter.com/dm1jqnaOW1
91. At a weird corporate-world breakfast place open early, and really curious what this free-floating button does (maybe emits a really nice sound?), but don’t want to bother anyone…pic.twitter.com/RketiHAeF5
92. Cute subway train people also take subway trains to work.pic.twitter.com/EZK9nf5RT7
93. There is a *lot* of foot traffic control flow, and not just limited to the subway. (Last photo: women’s bathroom.)pic.twitter.com/RIS6Zw8lyQ
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