(By the way, I really enjoy all of you jumping in with context, stories, corrections, and so on. This is very informative and I appreciate it!)
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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
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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
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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
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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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(Spoiler alert: I have enough material for this thread to be twice as long. Make yourself comfortable!)
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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
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75. Speaking of recommendations, this matter-of-fact one from a grocery store made me smile. “Best.”pic.twitter.com/wiZNrAYA06
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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81. The subway very often tells you how far things are, exactly.pic.twitter.com/fLCFv540eD
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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
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(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.)
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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
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84. A 100 yen shop! I wonder how similar it is to dollar stores in America…pic.twitter.com/lz5bLYek0Z
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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
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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
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87. Super cute little 1980s electronic watch in the shape of a Japanese personal computer.pic.twitter.com/efYkh1OGjc
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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
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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
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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
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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
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92. Cute subway train people also take subway trains to work.pic.twitter.com/EZK9nf5RT7
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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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94. There are so very many “keep on this side” signs, sometimes beautifully worn out by millions of feet walking over them. (Will try to take more photos of those.)pic.twitter.com/kBrosxnjgb
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95. There is so much more happening under one’s feet. There are many arrows pointing in the direction of points of interest, sometimes with surprising to me redundancy.pic.twitter.com/dDWI8uOARL
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96. Emergency exit routes are up there as I’m used to… but on the ground as well, in relatively small sizes.pic.twitter.com/kkiy3M2oCt
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