30oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN STREET ART: TUNNEL SAMURAI by MOT 8
Tag: tokyo
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN: STREET SHRINE
30oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN STREET ART: TUNNEL STORY
30oct25
TOKYO (SHINJUKU,) JAPAN: TIGER & DRAGON SHRINE
30oct25
TOKYO (SHIBUYA,) JAPAN STREET ART: MANHATTAN RECORDS WALL by TABOO 1 & BODE
29oct25
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