Photos

This photo is taken from just behind the Ryogoku Kokugikan (Tokyo's Sumo Stadium), and on the steps leading to the massive Edo Tokyo Museum.

The view is looking across to the train station - JR Ryogoku Station. A train is currently at the station. This is the new Ryogoku Station. You can see the remains of the old station platform just in front and below the train. It is now covered in bricks and spare parts.

Curiously, the old station platform still has old posters on it. I regret I didn't photograph them (something for next time...).

Behind the station is a street in Ryogoku. The huge sign indicates the Pachinko parlour, actually one of two on the same street ("Pachinko", and further along the aptly named "Pachinko 2"). 'Slot X' or 'X Slot' is what is cunningly hidden in the basement of the Pachinko parlour, and ironically fully advertised on the roof. Nice one.

The poster advertising "Rope" is one of many you will see in Tokyo: posters with words that the average Japanese person cannot read, being advertised by non-Japanese people. One of the many things in Tokyo that doesn't quite make sense.