A narrow side street in Nishi-Asakusa, Tokyo. Mid-morning, tall vertical signs in blue and red reaching up toward the tangle of wires overhead. Footsteps on the asphalt, unhurried. A cyclist coasts past, the soft tick of a freewheel. Behind, the metallic ring of a paint can set down on the ground, two voices too far off to make out. The hum of the city sits a few blocks away — traffic, a distant train — but here Tokyo has thinned to a murmur. A crow calls once from a rooftop. The wind moves through the wires. The neighborhood goes about its quiet morning, and the city holds it gently in place. BACK

A quiet residential area of Tokyo

A narrow side street in Nishi-Asakusa, Tokyo. Mid-morning, the kind of street that runs quietly between the bigger ones — small hotels, an eel restaurant, a pawn shop, a tangle of tall vertical signs in blue and red reaching up toward the wires that stitch the sky together overhead. The hum of the city sits a few blocks away — traffic on the larger avenue, the rumble of a train somewhere beyond it — but here, Tokyo has thinned to a murmur. A delivery van idles at the far end of the block. A crow calls once from a rooftop. The wires above carry the wind in a thin whistle. The neighborhood goes about its small unremarkable morning, and the city, vast and patient, holds it gently in place. Recorded with a small windshield, but processed to remove the little wind that was present.

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