Japanese Interchanges

June 1, 2008 · 13 comments

I've always loved this sort of thing and it's a great way to illustrate the size of a city.

When you travel into Tokyo from Narita, on the Narita Express, you start to get a taste for it and if it's the first time you've been to Tokyo then your enthusiasm levels should have well and truly risen by now.

I used to get this sort of excitement when i'd first arrive into Sydney, then after a few trips to New York and Japan it takes a bit more to get me going now. It's amazing how initial impression of something subsides and becomes the norm over a period of time.

I've had this with "humid weather" when i first moved to Brisbane and "big cities" after having lived here for the last few years.

It's amazing how small Melbourne feels when i get back there now …. let alone Adelaide. Here's a few samples from a great selection by Ken Ohyama

Japanese Interchange

You can check out a whole lot more of Ken's photos appropriately titled Interchange from flickr. There's about 80 all up so well worth checking out.

Japanese Interchange
Japanese Interchange
Japanese Interchange
Japanese Interchange

 

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June 2, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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1 Contamination June 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Those are some very cool photo’s. I love to look at them, I HATE to drive on them.

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2 neko June 2, 2008 at 1:34 am

wooow, looks awesome. Isn’t there an 7 way interchange or something like that in shibuya? I saw an illustration a long time ago where it showed 7 “roads” on top of each other…
Are you already on european land? Enjoy!

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3 John June 2, 2008 at 10:27 am

That’s.. a lot of roads.. I can’t imagine driving on it…

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4 Matt June 2, 2008 at 10:36 am

wow those are great photos.

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5 billywest June 2, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Would like to see an aerial photo during rush hour.

Or, maybe not.

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6 Chris B June 2, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Bring on the drunk Ireland photos!!!!!!!!!!

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7 R.O. June 4, 2008 at 4:28 am

I still get amazed by mundane stuff in Japan like the underground and outdoor malls.

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8 Neil June 8, 2008 at 1:31 am

Same same …. stuff that i would ordinarily ignore elsewhere.

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9 Komodo Dragon June 4, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Wow! The roads there look phenomenal! Way better than New York City.

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10 Kezia June 5, 2008 at 4:02 pm

I think I’ll get lost driving in Japan…Too many interchanges :) .

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11 Mari June 6, 2008 at 9:37 am

wow , is Japan looks like this this pictures everywhere or only Tokyo

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12 Neil Duckett June 7, 2008 at 11:18 pm

Tokyo mainly i’d say …. although i’m sure there are some others about the place.

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