Category: TB.Grafico

The Gyoza Stadium is part of the Namja Town theme park, which is a sort of ghost town amusement park. What distinguishes it from something like the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland (including the one at Tokyo Disneyland) is that all the ghosts and creepies here are of the Japanese variety. Here we see some heads…

One of the stalls at Ikebukuro’s Gyoza Stadium.

I just went out and took a picture of the posters for the 4 candidates of today’s election. At the top is Dr. Nakamatsu (in an extreme pointing pose), underneath is Keiko Higuchi, next to her is the Japanese communist candidate, and beneath him is Tokyo’s one and only Shintaro Ishihara!

This picture was taken not far from my apartment. The vertical green sign on the left indicates the address of the block. The grey sign in the middle has the name of the building behind the wall, Taipei House.

This is a building found in Ikebukuro on the west side of the station (I live on the east side).

I came back home really tired last night, too tired to cook anything, so I went to Sankus (one of the convenience stores nearby) and picked up this Bob Sapp bento. It came with a free bottle of green tea.

Local elections are coming up in Tokyo, and posters for candidates are popping up around my neighborhood.

Today is Astro Boy’s birthday! According to the manga, he was born on this day in a lab in the Takadanobaba area (2 stations from where I live). Pictured here is an Astro Boy Smarties-like (for those who don’t have the pleasure of having Smarties in their country – it could be a Canada-only thing…

Some graffiti from the Yoyogi park area.

Enjoying a monstrous Kua’aina burger in Aoyama.