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Japanese Narrow Buildings - Photo 10
By Muza-chan on Jan 31, 2010 | In Japan travel | 10 feedbacks »
The 10th installment of the Japanese Narrow Buildings series features two shops located near the Ueno Station.
I especially like the design of the left one, with the vertical red stripe, that seems made to emphasize the “thinness” of the building.

Japanese Narrow Buildings - Photo 9
By Muza-chan on Jan 10, 2010 | In Japan travel | 17 feedbacks »
In the 9th installment of the Japanese narrow buildings series, let’s visit Chuo-ku, on the banks of the Sumida river, where groups of small buildings give the area a certain charm…

… and your attention is relentlessly drawn to a narrow 5 stories building, not wider than 2 meters…

I don’t know how it is to actually live in one of these buildings, but, at least from outside, I very much like them… ![]()













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