Monday, October 10, 2011

Photo Special - Japan Weird Stuff

Language and cultural differences provide us with an enormous amount of amusement while travelling. Japan is a treasure trove of weird stuff.

Here are a few of our favourites!


Harajuku - 'Dress up girls' parade the streets in weird outfits.


Cartoon signs advertising slot machine parlours.


Slide at a pre-school. A munckhin escape route, or just a way to get them home in the afternoon?


Lost in translation.


Ticket machine in a large train station. The blur is because everytime  I pointed the camera, the guy in the window ducked. Does this mean Japanese mastery of mechanized ticket dispensing is a myth?


Street parade. Samurai piper?


Balcony in the kitchenware district, Ueno.


Platform markers indicating where to line up for entry to your train. Took us ages to figure it out.

Don't fly one of these without a licence.


Apparently one should only drink lesser quality water?


Parking for a two car, one bike family in a single garage.

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