![]() In Tokyo, it’s a challenge to find ancient buildings. ![]() For instance, this one was even taken from a business center’s restroom. Some shots in this post were made from balconies or through glass. You come across places like this a lot, and you can hear them from far because of the noise coming from the inside. In the picture above, there is a bunch of middle-agers – many of them come to play right after work. Gambling and video games are big in Japan and the players are both children and adults, from different social classes. There was only one small seam on the asphalt where there was a huge ditch a day before, telling us it hadn’t been a dream. The next morning, we were going to the metro station the same way – there were no road works already, it was all perfect again. The soil was turned up all over the place, the road was closed for traffic there were a bunch of traffic cops pointing where we should bypass the obstacles. Once we were on our way to our place, it was late and we came across pipeline road works. There was one occurrence in Japan, which I can’t get out my head. Maybe it’s just the first impression, which is often false. Possibly, it’s all because the difference is in the mindset. All guys wear black suits, women smile at you and bow to greet you. It amazes you at first – the cleanest streets and houses, regular housing with private mini-gardens, no noise in the streets even next to busy freeways. In this country, everything is proper and everybody is proper, but not as a role model for us to follow, quite the contrary. You may characterize Japan with just one word – Regularity. You can find tons of videos with dancing Japanese high-rises, on YouTube.įrankly, after the trip, it seemed to me that it is not a place for roofing, but rather for discovering the local culture. ![]() Skyscrapers aren’t so popular there because of the frequent earthquakes, there’re only high-tech buildings on some anti-vibration bedding and stuff. And I didn’t see any historical buildings at all. There’s a lack of modern architecture in Japan, if you ask me. Mainly, the cities in Japan are built on with low-rise buildings spreading throughout the horizon occasionally, there are unremarkable high-rises – business centers, which are regular glass cubes, no superfluity. Behind the link, there are plenty of photos from the Land of the Rising Sun. The most interesting sight was the Akashi Kaikyo bridge, which is the tallest and the longest suspension bridge in the world. Yet, we managed to take some shots from the heights. Because of the high suicide rates – jumping off roof is a good way to meet one’s maker, the Japanese go extra mile to restrict access to roofs. Getting on tall buildings’ roofs in Japan is a sort of mission impossible. We spent two weeks in Japan visiting Tokyo and Osaka. Japan is probably the most difficult and the most boring place for roofing.
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