“Osaka Neon” : Osaka, Japan, 26th December 2010
Here’s one of the things that Japan excels at: neon by night. Huge cities like Tokyo and Osaka are fun and exciting to explore after dark with garish signs and blaring sounds bombarding you from all sides – just like the movie Bladerunner. You don’t really need to worry about personal safety, either, as you would in many other countries, because nothing’s going to happen to you.
By day, though, it’s another story – the intrigue of the illuminated night is replaced by the other side of modern Japan – dull grey concrete, and lots of it, with not a scrap of green to be seen anywhere. Two sides of the same coin…
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