Building Facades in Tokyo

Signs of stores are orderly stacked together as a directory list, next to the facade of a building in Tokyo, Japan. It is interesting to compare this scenery with the typical scenery of Korean downtown districts (see this previous post): using a metaphor, if the former resembles a conversation, the latter resembles people screaming in a market. I indeed don't know if the stacked layout of the signs in Tokyo is a choice or is imposed by legislation, nevertheless it speaks of culture.


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