My whole time in Japan I never really looked down, you kind of get distracted by the dazzling lightshows happening above you and yet, here was a book by Remo Camerota (who wrote the book Grafitti Japan)dedicated to the manhole covers of Japan. He even has a blog updating new covers. I am constantly amazed at the Japanese aesthetic sensibility, each cover is made by the local municipality to reflect their local environment and some of them are just stunning (and amusing):
Rwoar!!!! I love Dinosaurs. The little logo also looks a bit like Astro Boy too....
Mmmmm...Pretty lady....
How can you not add this one? Look it's a panda and a koala! Who would've thought?! They both looked a little shocked though if you ask me, maybe they can see a car coming....
Aren't they just great?! There is no excuse to not be able to make everything beautiful, I mean most of these are linked to sewerage pipelines. Looks like I'm just going to have to go back to Japan to suss this all out...what a shame....
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