#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo
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Shitamachi houses. I love the street gardens (did you spot the chicken statue in the top photo?), and I wouldn’t mind living in that modern grey house, or sitting on that rooftop garden next to the little willow, or enjoying the ultimate shitamachi luxury: a real garden of your own with a tree and a wall and the whole caboodle. The last photo is a hoarder’s home, a surprisingly common sight in Tokyo. When it gets really bad, it’s called a gomi-yashiki or “garbage house”.
#my photos#Galaxy S8 photos#Asakusa#Iriya#Ueno#(mostly)#I've been walking A LOT lately#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo
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@maskingfragility: Ameya-Yokochō (アメヤ横丁) between Ueno and Okachimachi. It used to be a black market for American goods after WWII.
Everyday life in Tokyo
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Walking through Shitaya, a neighbourhood in eastern Tokyo. The torii and foxes are at Ono Terusaki Jinja (小野照崎神社), known as a shrine for actors and scholars.
#my photos#shitamachi#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#that plushie house is in a very narrow alley#why are they facing outwards?#I guess it gives them something to look at#or rather it gives passersby something to look at#or both :)
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Washday in the shitamachi
#this counts as a garden#no really look pot plants! ;)#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#my photos
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Eastern Tokyo automobiles and tumble dryer ;)
#that's how we roll in the shitamachi#we're not fancy at all#but our carbon footprints are tiny#Tokyo streets#Tokyo houses#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#my photos#Galaxy S8 photos
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Me too! :)
Not to be a broken record, but I love living in the shitamachi
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Urban wisteria
#wisteria#we don't have gardens in the shitamachi#but no worries#we have sidewalks!#my photos#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo
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Shitamachi shrine and cherry blossoms
#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#Tokyo streets#Shinto#shrines#torii#cherry blossoms#my photos#Galaxy S8 photos
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In the language of Tumblr: shitamachi aesthetic. Incidentally, see those greenish tiles on the left? They’re made of copper and acted as fire prevention in days of yore.
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Urban garden and plum tree
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Episode CCXI in “Tales of the shitamachi: Who needs a garden if you can have a sidewalk?”
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When I say houses in the shitamachi are narrow, I really mean narrow, as in the width of one car. It’s quite long (deep?), though.
#daily life in Tokyo#I'm not overly fond of long narrow spaces#I'm a bit of a square#daily life in the shitamachi#eastern Tokyo#my photos#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo
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Shitamachi house: the street doubles up as garage and garden.
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willbemother said: Many plant pots are always on the pavement. Sitamachi people like putting plant pots on the pavement?
@iwillbemother, yes! I took all these photos (this afternoon) (just for you) (grin) in the short walk from my apartment to the nearest station. I think shitamachi people love pot plants because we don’t have enough space for gardens, so we turn sidewalks and balconies and roofs into green spaces. :) PS: Yes, that’s a last stubborn patch of ice in that top photo. The narrow alleys in the shitamachi don’t get much sunlight. PPS: Don’t you love the little ornaments?
#daily life in Tokyo#or rather daily life in the shitamachi#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#my photos#Galaxy S8 photos#replies#iwillbemother
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Autumn colours in the shitamachi
#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo#we have Very Broad Boulevards >:)#autumn in Japan#my photos#Galaxy S8 photos
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Shitamachi version of wabi-sabi
#Tokyo streets#it's not all glass and steel and glamour#my photos#Xperia photos#shitamachi = blue-collar eastern Tokyo
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