Neo-Yotsuya is About to E X P L O D E

This underground passage in Yotsuyua Sanchome Station on the Marunouchi line has always reminded me of the cavern leading to the subterranean cryogenic storage facility in Akira. Here's another shot.

Comments

[Tom Cornyn]

Well said. It totally looks like that too.

[Bernie]

Totally mind-boggling that everything on the ceiling of the staircase looks like it's been completely un-fucked with since day one. I'm pretty surprised there isn't awful graffiti everywhere...but it's even more insane to me that there isn't any graffiti/street art/futuristic means of self expression anywhere in the photo.

[hillsy]

That's pretty cool.

[wah]

>>Bernie

I didn't live in Japan for long, nor did I use the subway much, but from my observations it seemed pretty clean down there.Then again, it's like that in both Boston and DC as well... though in both cases those places probably were not "un-fucked from day one."

There is graffiti in Japan, though: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22574139@N03/3804712988/