Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Random Walk Around Tokyo" video.

  1. at the start of the lockdown i helped a friend ship his stuff from the other side of croydon, where i live, to australia, where he was stuck. i hadn't been out of the house for weeks when i first went over and on the way back i walked criss crossing streets to the bus stop. i work in computer graphics and a popular technique for "blowing stuff up" is called voronoi fractures, and on my walk i noticed the pavements had cracks in, and the cracks followed a particular pattern, the simplest being a "Y" shape and then more variations. also the roads had just been surfaced so the street marking were crisp and new, so i took a load of photos of cracks and road markings and they got a lot of attention on instagram, so for the last two years i've - got on the bus and each day gone one stop further and walked and taken photos, got on the tram and gone one stop further every day, got off and walked, and now i've exhausted the tram and buses i'm using the train, at the moment the suburban tracks and doing the same. the point of all my rambling here though is to say it's surprising things like drains and paving, bricks and tiling are so similar to what we have in the UK, japan has more ornate manhole covers i believe, but looking and the roads the bricks and tiles could be interchangeable. i'd love to go and take pictures of japanese road markings! love the calligraphic stop signs!
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