Dave's Mostly Japan Photo Gallery

This city is so soggy, like my mind in ways…
–David Lee

Men at a Yakitori pub, with a magical beer floating on the left.

The streets of Tokyo

The afternoon sun in Shibuya

Under the JR rail overpass outside Shibuya station in Tokyo.

Red Japanese lanterns at a Tokyo yakitori shop. These akachochin (red lanterns) indicate a Japanese pub/restaurant that serves liquor/sake. Friends tell me these lanterns were popular after WWII as a marking for black market shops and restaurants. As time progressed they came to mark restaurants where you could get drunk and have a good time (izakayas). Now they are all over Tokyo and generally indicate good food & drink at a working man’s price. There is much more to the history of Japanese lanterns. I would not dare to try to understand it all myself.

Shibuya in the rain