Bouncing Red Ball

This is a sight worth seeing. A “life-sized” Gundam will be constructed at Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park in July to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Gundam Moblie Suit robot franchise, the official website has announced.
The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for two months. It will be built with [...]

It’s a perfect day, you have a Toyota ist and a Canon 5D Mark II, what do you do? Drive to Akihabara and take pictures of maid girls, right? Well, that’s a possibility. But some guys just mount their 5D on their dashboards in video mode and cruise through Tokyo’s expressways.
And you have a video [...]

The Green Island Project: “What if the roads are covered with grass? What would people think of it? This project started with those ideas.”
And so we have these highly improbable yet visually arresting images of Tokyo covered with grass, from Shinjuku to Gotanda to Yoyogi. Yes, we can only imagine.
Gotanda, Tokyo

Shinagawa, Tokyo

Shinjuku, Tokyo

Yoyogi, Tokyo

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The so-called G-Cans project or the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel is a drainage system in Saitama near Tokyo which was constructed to prevent floods around the metropolis during the rainy and typhoon season.
The subterranean infrastructure (video) is a combination of five huge silos that collect flood water above, 10-meter thick tunnels running 50 [...]

Thin buildings–in Japan, where real estate is prohibitively expensive, there are lots of them. You’ve probably seen one of these: quaintly slender buildings sandwiched between two large ones; sharp, pointed corner structures hugging every available space. Even apartments in which (we assume) tenants aren’t allowed to get too fat are not an uncommon sight.
So if [...]

With the coming cold months and longer nights in Japan, colorful lights begin to illuminate countless parks, shopping malls and train stations around the country, providing romantic backgrounds for lovers and urging shoppers and commuters that now is the season to spend your well-earned money to buy gifts for your loved ones.
For avid photographers and [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a Quicktime VR panorama may be worth ten times more. (Depending on your equipment, it may take up to 10 images or more to stitch a panoramic picture.) So for you out there who long to visit Tokyo but have neither time nor money to do [...]

Streets in Japan, unless you’re in the middle of Shibuya on a weekend, are usually devoid of people. Even looking down Japan inside Google Earth, it’s hard to find a place where you will see a lot of activity. Except for one place: Tokyo Disneyland. In 2006 alone, over 25,800,000 people visited the most [...]