Have you ever wondered how Japan fits their roughly 78 million vehicles into a habitable area roughly the size of Maine? Well, it takes just....
1 Aug 11:19 am  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Articles about bicycle parking in Japan have been a popular topic on cycling blogs worldwide.  They usually describe Japans high tech under....
7 Jun 10:43 am  from  Tokyo By Bike   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Rebar, an art and urban planning project in San Francisco, has just unveiled their first prototype of a street-side “walklet.” Rebar b....
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4 May 4:15 pm  from  1000 things about Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This adorable porcelain doll with red skirt and shoes and a yellow hair bow is collecting money for the orphans of car accidents. It was a ....
2 May 12:20 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

The Sugiyama Koen near Shin Nakano station has just been renovated, with a shiny new playground and some new landscaping. I am glad they ke....
13 Apr 9:04 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Back in March 2009, Sanyo launched a new line-up of Eneloop Electric back alongside its first Solar Parking for Electric bike, and today, j....
16 Mar 12:21 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This photo (using my crappy cell phone camera) was taken inside our local cinema with all the baby carriages neatly “parked” – people ....
9 Feb 10:21 pm  from  Konnichiwa   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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25 Jan 5:01 pm  from  1000 things about Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

P is for parking, so when in Japan you just look out for the familiar Blue square with a P in the middle and you know parking is near by H....
8 Dec 4:08 pm  from  The View from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent]