Japan the technology country 1 - photos

It's a cliched to talk about Japan being both super high tech and super traditional - nonetheless it's true.... Below are a few photos that I've dug up to show technology that has impressed me.  Blogger is not cooperating with formatting them well...

The almost completed first stage of

the Hokuriku Shinkansen at Itoigawa

Very high tech - the extensive Shinkansen

network throughout the country.

Old but still impresive hi tech

 Kanazawa snow melting

system on the road

Hi tech - Kanazawa station -
earthquake resistant curved
glass.

Hi Tech Travelator bridge to Harumi

Low tech - futons and washing hanging on
the balcony of Tokyo Metropolitan
Govt.  danchi in Kita-ku.

  

Fuji building Odaiba

High tech bubble economy architecture

De Beers building Ginza

Seriously high tech design

Smart money Suica cards

The very high tech super integrated
subway system of Central Tokyo

Fish drying in Chiba - 

very traditional

Mountain picked zenmai drying in Akita-
very traditional

Low tech innovation - portable tables
being constructed for hanami

Low tech innovation - milk cartons used

for writing waterproof notices in a park

in Kita-ku Tokyo.

Stacked car parking - high tech that's

taken for granted in Tokyo

Very high tech Nissan Leaf

prototype in Ginza

Thoughtfully high tech  -

convenient phone charging service

Yodobashi Okachimachi

Thoughtfully high tech - a lit up guide to

vacant toilets in JR Maihama station

Unnecessarily hi tech?

Eye recognition tobacco vending

machine..