Wednesday 29 July 2009

The Shops of Central Road




South exit from Koenji station,
Turn left,
Keep going past McDonalds and the Mizuho Bank ATM,
You will come to Central Road.
At the top, it's a bit seedy, with what could be described as Koenji's red light area, or one of them anyway: http://koenji-live.blogspot.com/2009/01/gentlemans-relaxation-zone.html

Once past that, you got some small bars, restaurants, Japan's only Tesco's(!), junk shops, and some of the best decorated shop fronts in Tokyo.
This is just two of them:
Nincompoop Capacity and Garter.
Someone's let their creative juices flow with these.

Saturday 25 July 2009

Bus Stop 2


Those nice chaps doing construction of the road and bus stops outside of the North exit have kindly placed another inflatable on display.
They gave us a dolphin this time.

Bit ironic they should choose a dolphin, considering Japan's horrific annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins in about a months time.

Friday 10 July 2009

Shops, bikes and shots at night








Around Koenji.
Some near PAL.
Some custom bikes, typical Koenji style.

Random street and hair salons






A couple of hair salons and random street pix around Koenji.

Saturday 4 July 2009

Keyring



Koenji Awaodori(festival) keyring.