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Oden Yatai 2008-04-07 20:36:00
If there's a food I really don't understand in Japanese cuisine well, that's oden. Here you can see a food stall on the lake of Ueno selling this thing, a broiled mix of eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku (a gelatinous no-taste "thing), and processed fish cakes. Actually, oden is not awfully bad as taste, it's just the consistence that is too weird for a crispy-food lover like me.
Downtown mafia 2008-04-06 20:36:00
I'm pretty sure these two men are very nice persons, but, they were sitting there, peering at the people walking on the street and discussing about something.. :) Read more:Downtown
Street food #2 2008-04-05 20:36:00
This young man is cooking & selling some food on the street. Not exactly sure what's that, hamburgers? okonomiyaki? a strange mix between these two? If you have any idea drop me a line ;) Read more:Street
Yatai in Ueno 2008-04-04 20:36:00
Street food is pretty good in Japan. You can have some traditional tastes like the previous image of skewered fish or takoyaki (little hot savory wheat-flour balls with a piece of boiled octopus in the middle), yakitori (grilled chicken speared on sticks) and yakisoba (fried noodle). There are some western-like foods as well, like corn dog (here's called american dog), french fries or.. fried spaghetti (well actually I'm Italian, but I've never seen that stuff in Italy). And a lot of beer of course.
However, no hot-dogs, almost always no hamburgers.. that's quite a shame, isn't it?
Skewered fish 2008-04-03 20:36:00
A man grilling skewered fish in a yatai, a small food stall on the street in Ueno. Outside, a lot of cats were waiting for some leftovers.
Japanese Ryokan 2008-03-30 02:59:00
Onsen and ryokan are a good way to see Japanese
traditional houses.. The real problem is, if you sleep there, they wake you up at 8 o'clock and they force you to eat grilled fish and stuff like that.. that's quite hard for someone who's used to just have an instant coffee for breakfast!
Used to be different ? 2008-04-08 20:36:00
The aged man was walking in Ameyayokocho, a street market district that used to be a black market just after WW2. I don't think he was going anywhere, just walking around, observing people and thinking.. I guess Japan was quite different
when he was a kid.
A window to weird reliquaries ? 2008-04-10 14:36:00
I don't know what exactly is this, I was just walking on the street when I noticed this small window with a lot of strange objects.
The Surreal Stuff series - #1 2008-04-09 20:29:00
Some years ago, when I was working as freelancer and I had plenty of spare time to mess around with photoshop, I really liked to retouch some photos to create weird subjects and stuff like that.
As you can guess, working as freelancer and having a lot (a lot) of free time means: not enough jobs and not enough money.. so unfortunately I had to stop working as freelance and consequently don't have time to play with photoshop for hours and hours. That's a shame, but maybe when I'll retire...
However, I've decided to put online some of those images, maybe one at week, maybe one at month, don't know.. Ok, the images are not japan-related but I think they are interesting, what do you think?
Oh, and the one in the photo is me ;) Read more:series
Here comes the firefighters! 2008-04-09 20:13:00
Here comes
the firefighter with the big red fire truck, oh yeah! Actually the fire truck is quite small, and pretty slow too..
Dear old home 2008-04-11 01:36:00
Pretty rusty, isn't it?
It's not an abandoned factory, it's a home, someone lives there.
Arun's bar in Oimachi 2008-04-12 20:36:00
Arun's Bar is a "Reggae shot bar" that sells Bangladesh food. It's in Oimachi, but the atmosphere is pretty interesting.. poor interiors, multi-colored bulb lights, flags and wood everywhere, it reminds me some places in Amsterdam..
If you want to check it out.. here's a link
Young Business Lady 2008-04-14 06:36:00
A young business lady crossing the street in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Read more:Business
Dagashi 2008-04-13 20:36:00
This is a dagashiya, dagashi are "cheap candies" or something like that, and when you put a -ya at the end it means "shop".. so a place where you can buy a lot of cheap, hyper saturated, super sweet - almost 100% chemicals - candies.
A little history here:
(again, it's Oimachi)
Robot Zx-k210 M 2008-04-15 08:36:00
Ok, it's not a robot and zk blah blah has no meaning but hey, it was quite scary when I suddenly found it on the street! Read more:Robot
Coming back home 2008-04-17 02:36:00
A small street beneath a railroad bridge. She's coming back home..
Have the time of your life 2008-04-20 20:36:00
Just next to the dagashi-store there's a bench where kids sit down eating some candies, an ice cream or (most of the time) having colossal Nintendo DS wireless matches (at least 8 kids glued to those tiny screens).. I like that atmosphere.. if in my next life I'll be a japanese kid I want to go to that candy store, buy some candies, sit down on that bench outside the shop and play there with some friends.. no worrying (yet) about the future,
Inside a bus for Oimachi (low-view) 2008-04-23 02:36:00
Buses in Tokyo are pretty cool..and quite small (when I have to take one it remembers me my old schoolbus).. You enter through the front door, pay a flat fare when entering (from 210yen using coins, or you can just use Suica), and exit through the rear door. I think if you want to see the coolest grandpas & grandmas in Tokyo, you have to give a try to the bus
A man cutting ice blocks 2008-04-21 20:36:00
A man cutting ice blocks in Nezu, near Ueno. Actually, you can see many people doing the same job, especially in the narrow streets of old-style districts.
And your time has come 2008-04-25 20:36:00
I've been wanderin sideways
I've stared straight into the sun
Still I don't know why you're dying
Long before your time has come
Listen to the Big Brother. That's an order 2008-04-24 20:36:00
"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
A man on the street staring at a TV screen showing some video game.
Fortyfive minutes later, I walked again on this street. He was still there, alone, exactly in the same position. Read more:Listen
, Brother
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