Into Dreams
Tokyo’s a long way to go and somehow your childhood got here before you.
Wonder what’s inside…
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
Tokyo’s a long way to go and somehow your childhood got here before you.
Wonder what’s inside…
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
Shinjuku, dead-centre Tokyo, Guinness World Record holder: World’s Busiest Station. Politest chaos on Earth.
Tokyo’s arcades are neat and orderly. So, like in perfect snow, everyone leaves their footprints.
There has long been a trend of reporting on Japan that selects and spins niche, non-news stories to contribute to a collaborative caricature of “Weird Japan”. One popular pastime is to point at sexual perversions – where many “perversions” are merely wayward of Western norms, presented absent acknowledgement or awareness of the imperfections in how we all cope with sex the world over.
Roads brushed to a shine and longstanding arcades showing only the necessary degradation.
Easter eggshaped image from the loserdrop stairwell that squeezes you between the prize machines and a Chinese into a Fight Club-style fighting-game fight club.