Cabs wait patiently for passengers to file out of the train station.
It's remarkable how no space goes unnoticed or unoccupied. The space below the railway lines and freeways are used here by small eateries and vendors hawking everything imaginable. In other areas of town, these spaces are occupied by high-end department stores and restaurants. The unintended but beautiful consequence is that these places become cacophonous and disjunctive zones of activity, where anything can be expected.
This journal features images and commentary from my three months in Tokyo during Autumn 2006. I am an aspiring architect who is currently based in Vancouver, Canada.
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