Gorgeous shop shutter art.

Apparently the Tatami (traditional woven rice straw flooring) Makers in Tokyo are more hardcore than your average tatami maker. You can tell by the smarmy look.

This section of road was blocked off at 6am so that old folks could do their 「ラジオ体操」, or "radio calisthenics".

Interesting tidbit (as related to me by a co-worker): Apparently one way the Japanese gub'ment could tell citizens from Korean spies was by asking them to do radio taisou. "Only a true Japanese can do radio taiso." I call shenanigans, but it's kind of funny to think about what an interrogation of that sort might entail.

Come to my shitty little lottery shack/booth and get rich quick!

The Prime Minister, aside from being a manga jockey, is a "Cool Old Dude".

You know, I expect this kind of translation fuckup in backwater city trains that go to nowhere, but on a subway in the second biggest city in Japan? Unfuckingacceptable.

Criminals beware: Kabuki actors live here! They will annoy you if you break the law!