Friday, February 16, 2007

hi-tech, mid-tech, lo-tech (plus street scenes, some unremarkable)

On the Path of Philosophy, Kyoto.

Whole lotta building going on.

Picking up a metrocard ...

... in order to gad about a Tokyo a bit ...

... and forget which photos you took where. Is this Shibuya?

Shaky.

Roppongi. Round the corner from Hannah's diggings.

I rotated this photo, but it has turned itself back round.

Intensive smoking (one response to the hi-tech).

Gargantuan new train station in Kyoto. Reputed to have an entire city inside it.


The Kyoto tower, from the roof of the new station, with some municipal art. And, in shadow, one of municipal art's biggest fans. (I kid you not.)

Industry! On Shikoku. There was a lot more of it, even more industrial, but I didn't get the camera primed in time.

There are many good-looking skyscrapers in Japan. They gleam. Somehow I ended up with this rather bleak photo.

Super expressway in Roppongi, taken from Hannah's balcony. Granted, here it looks a bit like it's just a road. But it is striding along forever on stilts, as if the Hammersmith Flyover had made a bid to get to Bethnal Green. Or Bognor.

I forget what kind of tickets these were spitting out, but they're a nice colour.

Bus station, Matsuyama.

Tramline, Hiroshima.

Vend! Vend! Vend!

A whopper! Whopping inter-island rail-and-road bridge. You think that it's over, and then you get another whopping stretch of it.

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