Asia and Australia 2025

Tokyo

Shibuya Crossing in the early evening. This incredible display of organised chaos has something typically Japanese. Most of the traffic which passes while the people wait are taxis and buses, very few private cars. This could have been moved underground, as the traffic in all stations is coordinated, but instead they have allowed this extraordinary display of patient discipline to become a global icon, each crossing photographed by hundreds of tourists from the metro station overpass, or the opposite building windows. In that building, Starbucks oblige people to purchase their comestibles before gaining access to the few, awkwardly placed viewing windows.

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