This is some sort of group of storage container by my new apartment. One of the containers has a green sign on it from Pitatto House (ピタットハウス) looking for a tenant to move in (ご入居受付中). Wouldn’t be so bad if it had windows and electricity I suppose.
Delicious delicious cream stew!
A sign in the underground explaining the “Women Only” carriages. These have been around for ages, and exist to prevent men from groping women in the crowded trains in the mornings.
Recycling outside an apartment block. On this particular night, the boxes for PET, glass and aluminium were out. Everyone in the apartments separates their rubbish into the appropriate boxes and the following morning, they are collected. Every day is a different type of rubbish, and there are lots of types. On top of the 3 above, there are also burnable, non-burnable, dangerous, and plastic types: which all have to be separated and put out on the correct days. Everyone co-operates, though, and it’s a very efficient system. More modern apartment blocks have areas outside where you can put your separated rubbish at any time, rather than having to do it the night before collection.
Shimokitazawa (下北沢) is a shopping area with lots of tiny shops in a labyrinth of tiny streets. One shop (I think it was called Shimokitazawa Garage) is actually a collection of smaller shops, and one of those shops rents individual shelves to individuals to sell their wares, most of which are jewellery. There have been a lot of second-hand clothes shops opened recently, and it’s a big trend here now. Shimokitazawa has quite a lot of them.
