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About kawaii - Fukurou Koban, a kawaii police station
By Muza-chan on Nov 20, 2009 | In Japan travel | 16 feedbacks »
I wrote some time ago that a character is often considered kawaii if it has a big head, big eyes, curved head and body, small (or missing) mouth, etc…
If those rules are followed, can we apply the kawaii concept to a… police station? ![]()

… like this koban (police box), located near the entrance of the Ikebukuro Station.

The name of the building comes from the similarity to an owl’s head, Fukurou Koban (Owls Police Box).

Manseibashi Koban
By Muza-chan on Jun 23, 2009 | In History | Send feedback »
The approx 100 years old Suda-cho koban (police box), from the Edo Tokyo Open Air Museum, was built at the end of Meiji Period, at the foot of the Manseibashi in Kanda. It suffered severe damage in 1923, as a result of the Great Kanto Eartquake, but it was restored to it’s original state.
After the earthquake, the koban lost his importance and was used as an office for traffic control officers. Finally, it was donated by the Metropolitan Police Department and it was moved to the Edo Tokyo Open Air Museum in one piece, using a trailer truck.














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