Genre: Architecture
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Pattern of Abuse
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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End of the Road
Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Rainfall after Nightfall
Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Golden Turd
It didn’t take long for my daughter and I to notice the weird giant yellow thing across the river near our hotel in Asakusa. “What is that?” I asked. She looked on her phone for a minute and then laughed. “Oh,” she said, “it’s the ‘Asahi Flame’, but the locals call it ‘The Golden Turd’”.
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Sumida Reflections
Back in Tokyo after spending the day down in Kamakura (discussed in this post) I had nothing on my agenda for the evening, so I went for a walk along the Sumida River. I mostly used my fast 85mm, in part because it had a deep lens hood and it was raining. Besides that handy
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Scarlet Trusswork
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Urban Skylines
This week wraps up my recap from my Tokyo Vertigo tour with Eyexplore. This set of images concentrates more on views out over the city. City skylines usually look pretty at night, especially from a distance. Since most of my vantage points were not particularly high, these images tend to have shorter buildings in the
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Kamakura Temples
Kamakura is a pretty city in Kanagawa prefecture south of Tokyo. It has some notable temples, including Hasedera and Kotoku-in. All but one of the images in this post were taken on the grounds of the former. The original Hasedera temple dates back to the 8th century, although the building above has been rebuilt more
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Menace
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Tokyo Skytree
We’re going to open our series on Japan with images of the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest freestanding tower in the world at 2,080′ (634m). It stood only 1 km away from my hotel in Asakusa, so I had ample opportunities to photograph it over my eight days in Tokyo. The image above obviously exploited a