29oct25
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: MANHATTAN RECORDS WALL by TABOO 1 & BODE
29oct25
Category: JAPAN
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN STREET ART: SHINJUKU
30oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN: HANAZONO SHRINE
The Hanazono Shrine (花園神社, Hanazono Jinja) is a Shinto shrine. This shrine was founded in the mid-17th century. Nestled in the heart of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, Hanazono Jinja was constructed in the Edo period by the Hanazono family. This Inari shrine—a shrine dedicated to Inari, the androgynous god of fertility and worldly success—is a favorite place for businessmen to pray for successful ventures.
30oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN STREET ART: WELCOME TO SHINJUKU LIFE by MOT 8
30oct25
TOKYO, JAPAN: MAYBE YOU REALLY CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
Coming back to Tokyo felt like returning to a dream I’d already woken from. But something’s shifted—subtly, invisibly. Maybe the city hasn’t changed. Maybe I have.
They say you can’t go home again, but I didn’t believe it until now. You can retrace every step, find the same ramen shop, walk the same narrow streets—but the feeling doesn’t return. What once shimmered with newness now feels distant.
It’s not sadness exactly—it’s something quieter. A recognition that time moves in only one direction, and the places that once felt like home remain suspended in a version of the past that no longer exists.
So I walk the same streets again, but this time as a ghost—half here, half somewhere that can’t be reached anymore. Tokyo is still beautiful. It’s just not mine in the same way it was before.
November 2025
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: ROAD TUNNEL ART
29oct25
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: MT. FUJI by TODOROKI TOMOHIRO
29oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN STREET ART: PIGGY by TABOO 1
30october2025
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: D*FACE
29oct25
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: LOST MORNINGS
Prowling the streets in ‘early morning Shibuya.’ Holiday from work so I caught my regular 5:56am train bypassing my transfer and came straight here. Trying to piece together the remnants of 22 years of off and on living and visiting here. So many places have changed since Covid, apparently, so my old landmarks are basically lost.
I ‘think’ I walked past a Family Mart that we would sit out front of drinking a Chu-Hi or whatever, before heading out to the clubs for the night. I ‘think’ I walked up the street where Craig Taylor, Jeannette, Jarren, and I saw DoGviLLe, the Lars Von Trier, Nicole Kidman classic.
Sitting at a Komeda’s Coffee ☕️ now, rethinking my approach to these streets today. Some people are still stumbling out of clubs. I remember those mornings!
29oct25