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Asakusa – Tsukiji – Asakusa

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:57:04 +0000

When you are too busy coding and your mind doesn’t work anymore, instead of keep pushing, take a break and do something completely different. That’s what I did on Saturday. I left home in the afternoon and walked down the Sumida River until it ends.

Kuramae Bridge (japanese)

These are representations of famous art works that follows the walls on the river side. Nobody do any graffiti, damage or vandalize them. In almost any other country things wound’t work that way…

The boat was turning around.

The colored one is Shin Oohashi bridge (Japanese)

Under the Kiyosu Bridge (Japanese)

I was lucky it was a perfect clean night.

Big residential towers in Tsukishima

These streets are full of restaurants to eat monja. It looks like a vomit but it’s delicious.

Mini police station, with a phone…

There is a planet close to Tokyo tower, I wonder which one…

Tsukiji the fish market of Tokyo. The biggest fish market in the world!

These are some pics, I took more, check them out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/drzuco/tags/tsukiji/

Paintings in the Tsukiji station of the Oedo line.

Heading back home to Asakusa

Kaminari Mon Hotel

It’s so rare to find this street empty :)

Small bars in some parallel streets near the Asakusa Temple

Long exposure

Maybe he was going to do something important, a travel seems to be in his plans. Before doing whatever that guy was going to do, he stopped for 2 seconds to do a little pray. I was lucky he popped up in my viewfinder :)

End! It was a walk of about 10Km, very good to make my brain rest and think.

Books, Sports, Music, Electronics

Pietro Zuco — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:05:03 +0000

If you are in Tokyo I recommend to follow this path.
Get out at Kudanshita station, exit 2 and walk all the road down to Jimboucho to find tons and tons of old books. Even if you don’t understand Japanese, it’s very interesting to see the atmosphere in there. Then you’ll find streets dedicated to sports, then streets of music and finally you will be in Akihabara, the geek kingdom.

View Books, Sports, Music, Electronics in a larger map

Direct link to Google Maps

Massive construction work at Iidabashi

Pietro Zuco — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:17:33 +0000

It’s quite usual in Tokyo to see a building in some place, and after one week or less it just disappeared and after some months, you come back to the same place and you see a new building. Tokyo’s shape changes really quickly, but what I saw today was beyond what I’m used to see. At least in my 5 years living here.

As you can see in the map, the blue area has been completely demolished. Hundred of apartments and tens of buildings just removed. I don’t know what they are building there, but just imagine the process to move all those people and companies away from there.

Map here.

Look at that! The blue zone has been completely demolished…

Some pictures of the current construction work. Any ideas of what are they building there?

Small power

Pietro Zuco — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:09:02 +0000

Small, old and crappy building in Kachidoki close to a big and modern one.
Maybe the owner didn’t want to sell the portion of soil where it was built. I wonder if the architects had to design the building to “avoid” that portion.

The aerial view thanks to Google Maps

iPads used as advertisement screens at Shinjuku St.

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:27:03 +0000

Citizen is advertising their products using iPads embedded in the columns near the East exit at Shinjuku station.
Until now, tablets were around the corner but for some reason, the iPad now seems to be the only and first tablet in the world.
I was thinking if this is only good marketing from Apple, but maybe it’s not only that.
What makes this tablet “special” is the fact that it brakes many of the topics surrounding gadgets and computer devices: “They always fail”.
Unfortunately we are so used to the fact that electronic devices, and specially computerized ones will always fail. Maybe that’s due to the fact that Microsoft invaded the world with its “failing = business” policy. Actually the iPad represents a device that groups in one product, good design, reliability, stability, easy of use, nice interface and good performance. It’s not only marketing, this device is really a good product and I hope that other makers think seriously about this. I want some competitors, based on quality not only on marketing.

Long exposure pictures at Odaiba

Pietro Zuco — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:42:50 +0000

Some long exposure pictures at Odaiba
It’s a good place to see Tokyo’s skyline and the Rainbow Bridge. No people in there, a lot of space and green.

This is not on earth…

Playing with shadows

Lights in the sky of Vulcan.

Random pictures of Tokyo #4 Sumida-ku

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:25:17 +0000

Check out some pictures of Sumida district at darkboxnotes.com

Random pictures of Tokyo #4 Sumida-ku

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:20:13 +0000

One more weekend and so one more lonely photowalk. This time around Sumida district.

He didn’t want me to take pictures in front of the track because it could be dangerous… :(

Random Tokyo shots #2

Pietro Zuco — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:36:18 +0000

Pictures from a lonely photowalk from Asakusa to Roppongi.

Took at Ueno

Near the first one, the metal ball

Using fisheye near the imperial palace

Near Akihabara. I think that up the street there is a Temple

At Ueno, near the first one

Near Ochanomizu

Ameyoko market

A lonely coffee…

Weird sky in Tokyo

Pietro Zuco — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:13:19 +0000

I took these pictures by the end of August. Don’t you see anything weird here?
The shadow in the sky is a straight line. What that shadow comes from? A huge building far far away?
Some ideas?