Random photos of stations I have visited

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Keio Tama Centre

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Akihabara

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Narimasu station. Side note, some Japanese places have "interesting" names. Narimasu sounds like "to become". Then there's Ochanomizu, "tea water". Soka, "is it?"

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Fans that spray water to keep everyone cool.

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The somewhat rare PSX, basically a Playstation 2 with DVR built in.

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The station again, and a sign at a bus stop.

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Nerima. What really struck me about this neighbourhood is how quiet it was, and how clean the air was. That is the expressway you can see at the back, enclosed to keep the noise from leaking out. Of course the street itself is immaculate.

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They had my size but I think I'll keep looking for some extra wide ASICS at that price...

 

 

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Wakoshi station.

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Asakadai station.

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I want one of these too... The PC-FX, the follow up to the popular PC Engine. It didn't take off, although there were a decent number of games for it. The issue was that all the other consoles were going 3D, but NEC bet on full motion video instead. As such all but a couple of the games are animated dating sims.

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500 yen for that beautiful clock!

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Niiza.

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Japan looks so dramatic at night. There is a general lack of street lighting, so what lighting there is tends to be more ad-hoc and whatever the residents set up. It's so safe that there just isn't a need for more I guess, although the lack of pavements can make some places feel a bit dangerous with cars passing. Speed limits are low.

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Google Maps is great for getting you where you want to go, but sometimes it picks an odd route. I tend to follow it if it goes off the beaten path a little, because you discover stuff like this...

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Speaking of off the beaten path, this is Mizuhodai and Google literally took me off the beaten path and down an unpaved dirt track by some fields. This Hard Off was well worth a visit, but was a 30 minute walk from the station with no apparent busses.

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This looks home made...

 

 

This device is for saving in a few Famicom games that support it. Like many memory devices back then it used battery backup, because cheap flash memory hadn't been invented. I was tempted to get it because it can probably be converted to FRAM, removing the need for a battery. The list of supported games isn't long and the ones I care about have Famicom Disk System versions anyway.

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What is a grommet repair machine?

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From the attached Hobby Off...

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As usual the car was spotless...

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Higashi-kurume.