Life in Japan - Pictures galore !! Arcades, Temples, Rainy days, etc

I've been to Ikebukuro about 3-4 times in my life. In my daily grind I rarely leave the circle that goes from Shinjuku where I work out and sometimes socialize/shop, to Shibuya where I live, and around to Roppongi where I work. Why would I? Isn't that what most people do?

I go to new places from time to time but they are usually with some type of goal in mind. IE: take the train to the zoo, go into the zoo. I don't go car gazing.

 

@Jamtex, yeah they have set top boxes to convert old TVs in to receiving digital singnals but you know what the Japanese are like. They love to junk prefectly working goods.

Yakumo

 

Still enjoying your free Saturn, right?

This is one of the reasons why the Japanese have one of the most modern societies in the world, they drop the old stuff and adopt the new stuff much faster than most other countries. On the other hand that is a disaster for the environment, it costs a lot of energy and resources to produce the new stuff in such short intervals. The longer you use stuff, the better for the environment.

 

There are companies that ship that stuff off to developing nations.

 

Yep, still going strong after 10 years :thumbsup:

 

That's not necessarily true. For example, driving a really old car or using old technology/methods can be very bad for the enviroment. I do agree that they probably throw alot of stuff away just because it is old in which case the newer stuff is most likely not that much better.

 

Factor in how much energy and resources are needed to produce a new car, really, even if it is an old gas guzzler it is still better for the environment if it runs a few years longer than to produce more and more new cars.

 

A few photos from my latest trip to Japan. The quality on these is pretty shocking, as I uploaded them to Facebook then downloaded them from there and uploaded them again to Photobucket.

Shinsekai, Osaka:


Yawatahama, Ehime:


Ritsurin Park, Takamatsu:


Kobe:


Nara:


Korakuen, Okayama:

 

Seeing that Nara picture brought back memories. I went there in 1997. Man, that was a very long time ago :nod:

 

14 years by my count!

 

Fun fact: Nara in polish is slang for "cya"

 

For Gaijinpunch, a Garage selling lots of Minis including Mini Coopers, Mini Clubmans even a Mini Countryman hidden away. I counted at least 18 BMC / Morris / Austin / Rover Minis


Although I only had my phone with me here are some cars covered in Anime / Manga characters that were in a Carpark when I was cycling into the hear of Gunma...





Old Nissan Skyline and nest to it a Toyota Trueno AE86 Much nicer then some of the Yellow plated cars covered in pictures...

Sadly I did not have a great deal of space on my camera. There was a Ferrari 599 that also had some risque pictures on it but I ran out of space and couldn't delete the pictures I had on the phone.

 

Where's that dealership? Doesn't look like Tokyo. Don't doubt there around, just never see them. Note that about 10-20% of the cars I see are cabs.

Back on topic...
Here's some photos from Yakumo's last trip to Tokyo.


Pink Overdose by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Pink Overdose Shoes by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

 

Hahaha, you cheeky sod :lol:

 

*looks at hands* is..is.. is that a guy in that costume?

 

@Jamtex, we see a few of those anime painted cars down here as well. Cool but very sad at the same time :nod:

Yakumo

 

I assumed it was from the get-go, but the hands confirmed it.

 

Why would anyone ruin a wonderful old Nissan Skyline by painting some dull anime crap on it?

 

It's not actual paint but vinyl wrap. It can come off the car without leaving a mark if you pay a specialist to do the job.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

yakumo

 

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

can't stop laughing at that haha!

...and then getting a creepy feeling after noticing it's a guy in that pink costume :-(