Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What is This? 6

Spotted: This weekend I did a little traveling on our three-day vacation and went to Osaka, Kobe, and Himeiji Castle. On the streets of America Village or "Ame-Mura" in Osaka I saw several of these tall, slender objets d'art lining the streets at various intervals. Seemingly ubiquitous and anthropomorphic in form, could this be Japan's next step in robotics technology?


Answer: These are the streetlights in Ame-Mura, which I thought looked pretty cool. They come in various positions and add a lot of character to the seeming "placelessness" of Osaka.

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