A canopied Honda Gyro, with a gimbaled tray on the back for carrying things like noodles, rushes a delivery to its destination.
A compact parkade. You drive your car onto the turntable, it turns it around, you drive onto the lift, which transports your car into the interior of the parking lot.
A cardboard recycler pulls his cart through Akihabara.
A policeman receives a call on his radio.
The front of an old D51 steam locomotive on the front of the train museum in Akihabara. Leh and I tried to go here with our old friend George today, but unfortunately it was closed for the day. Apparently this museum will only be open for a few more months as there is a huge new one about to open out in Omiya.
The nose of the original Shinkansen on the front of the train museum. The last of these only went out of service in the last year or two.
Elevated train tracks near Akihabara station.
Electric bicycles were just being introduced when we left Japan a decade ago; now there are all kinds and the prices have come way down. This is a small one with a Honda electric motor - I don't know if Honda built the whole bike.
Small, single-cylinder motorcycles still have a following; this one by Kawasaki is a bit unusual for its underbore engine.
An oden 'yatai' (cart for selling food on the street) near the south exit of Shinjuku Station; seeing things like this makes it almost seem like you are in Asia...
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