RolandSubject: Arcade Exterior, Subject: Tokyo Street, Developer: Sega, Year: 2017, Arcade: Sega Takenotsuka, Location: Takenotsuka

Concrete

RolandSubject: Arcade Exterior, Subject: Tokyo Street, Developer: Sega, Year: 2017, Arcade: Sega Takenotsuka, Location: Takenotsuka
Concrete
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Tokyo fix-all multipurpose commercial realty. Quietly stylish. Slick enough to skirt vogue for a decade; unobtrusive enough to get old and hide.

Slot in any business you want.

Takenotsuka Sega looks like it was something else before. Full-height glass and concierge desk ground floor.

But if it’s jammed with arcade machines then it’s an arcade.

Saturday staff recruitment posters in the toilet. 18:00-24:00 shift. Job for dreamers? ¥1,000 per hour: a slap of commercial reality.

Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people

RolandArcade: Game Spot 21, Subject: Tokyo Street, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Year: 2017, Location: Shinjuku

What Game Spot 21 Did

If you say the machines don’t need to be cleaned on the parts people don’t touch then that’s your thing, I guess. If you think it’s OK to laminate a “Watch it! Bagsnatchers!” Sign over the urinal instead of creating an establishment where it doesn’t happen, your call.

But…

RolandArcade: Game Spot 21, Subject: Tokyo Street, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Year: 2017, Location: Shinjuku
What Game Spot 21 Did