There’s only one building that is going to survive the apocalypse in Tokyo :
The New Sky Building (ニュースカイビル) in Shin-Ōkubo (新大久保).
At this point I was totally and utterly trespassing but I had to get on the roof no matter what.
This battleship, which was completed in 1970, is the work of Watanabe Yōji.
I’ve added some Tokyo pictures (hopefully there’s more to come). Check it out.
Why is Diddlefinger noteworthy ? Because most English language sites with information about Japan only feature addresses in romanji (for example “15-3 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku” instead of “渋谷区桜丘町15-3″) not realizing that it is virtually useless since no online maps (that I know of at least) offers romanji address search. You’re left with an address you can read but that you can’t easily locate on a map.
Romanji address search wasn’t available, until now that is, because Diddlefinger allows you to do just that: locate Japanese address written in romanji on Google maps.
Like what you see ? Then head over to Matt Alt blog, where he recently announced the upcoming release of his book on “working” Japanese mascots “Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters From Japan“.
What is this about ? Tokyo Damage Report is Steven Schultz’s website. This is how he describes it:
Japan photos and reports. Tokyo subcultures explained: fashion, fetish, punk, Engrish, visual, and so on. Plus, my tokyo tour guide!
Tokyo Damage Report is as far as it gets from your average run-of-the-mill site/blog about living in japan. It is gonzo ! Gonzo like nightly bike rides through Tokyo and visiting panty vending machines shops at 2 AM while listening to Kool Keith on headphones.
The site deals with punks show, weird art/manga characters, only-in-japan fetishes (like burusera), engrish, fucked up Tokyo architecture, a dictionary of awkward japanese and it also features a Tokyo tour guide.
This is where the map part comes in, since locating a specific address in Tokyo can be euphemistically described as “hard”, I thought it would be nice to have a map with places described the guide.
The actual map is here, check it out (after having read the guide of course):
http://noreaction.net/maps/tdr/
Update: there are now three ways to view the Tokyo Damage Report map:
- My custom version (using Google maps)
- Google maps version
- Bing maps version
