An anachronism holding out against the times. Ebihara Shoten building in Akihabara Tokyo, 2016. Taken with a Rollei film camera. 📷🗝️
Japan’s Tetsudo Denka Kyokai marks Nov 19 as railway electrification day. In ‘56, the Tokaido was electrified & Tokyo-Osaka took 7.5 hr by “Tsubame”, then 3 hr by “Hikari” Shinkansen in ‘64. 🚅🇯🇵📷
I liked watching people come and go on the Modi stairs and platforms at night, from the JR Totsuka station plaza area. Taken with a Rollei film camera. 📷🛍️
Today 11/18 is Doboku no Hi or Public Works day here in Japan, after how the kanji 土木 are built. 土 from 10 and 1, and 木 from 10 and 8. 📷🏗️
“Beagle House” Honda Wing shop in Totsuka, taken with a Rollei film camera. Reminds me I need to get my scooter’s oil changed. 📷🛵
Almost 5am and it’s rain for Totsuka. You can hear it on the shutters and I can feel it in my joints. Glad we had such fair weather yesterday for hiking. ☔️
Nihonbashi “Nara Mahoroba-kan” mascot, taken on Rollei 35S film camera. 📷🦌
Hiked Hakone’s Mt Kintoki today with the wife and D1. Perfect weather for it and the view of Fuji was spectacular, but I’m spent. 🇯🇵🗻
Colorful laundry bags, not trash. 📷🧺
PMark Security Incident - JIPDEC announces investigation results into Privacy Mark breach https://cogley.jp/2023/11/15/pmark-security-incident.html
Nov 15 is 7-5-3 or “shichi-go-san” day, a traditional rite-of-passage holiday in Japan, to pray for your children’s health and good fortune. Usually people can’t take the day off to go to the shrine if it falls on a weekday, and would schedule the Shrine blessings on the weekend. 🇯🇵🎎🎏
When you can find one, Japan pay phones have buttons for police (110) and fire (119) service, that connect you without needing payment. 📷🚨🆘
Today 14 Nov was the birthday of Dr Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, and is World Diabetes Day. One in 10 people has it, so it’s a good idea to get informed. 💉🩸
Local Daily Yamazaki for bread or drinks. By the way Nov is apparently “Double Soft Won-double Month”. 📷🍞🍞
AshidaVox ST-31-02 Headphones Microcast https://cogley.jp/2023/11/13/ashidavox-st-headphones.html
For #MicroMonday I’d like to share and thank Matt Langford (@mtt), who created “Tiny Theme” that many of us micro-bloggers use. 📅🙏🏻
https://micro.blog/discover/micromonday https://mattlangford.com/
Today Nov 13 is “Urushi” Lacquer Day. Legend has it that Imperial Prince Koretaka, first son of Emperor Montoku in the Heian Period, prayed at Horinji temple in Arashiyama Kyoto for improved lacquerware production methods. Since then, this has been a day of thanks to lacquer craftsmen. 🇯🇵🍱
Cool geometrical shapes at Tokyo station. 📷
On this day in 1872, the 5th year of Japan’s Meiji period, the gov’t mandated “Western” clothing for gov’t officials, and 100 years later in 1972, it was designated “Western Clothes Day”. 🎌🕴️
An AU store in 2008, where you could buy a flip phone for zero yen, if the signs are any indication. 📷🤳
