Tokyo

Akihabara at Night

Another one of Tokyo's many jewels

Daniel Vesey Jul 06, 2015 - 1 min read

<p>Akihabara at night - one of Tokyo's many jewels </p>

<p>Tall and gleaming buildings, crowds of people </p>

<p>The sound of trains whizzing by in the background </p>

<p>The heart of anime culture in Japan</p>

<p>Beautiful Japanese dolls for sale </p>

<p>Shiny cars complementing the shiny buildings </p>

<p>The shops, like the buildings, come alive at night</p>

<p>A unique place, full of so much character </p>

<p>Backstreets are also full of life</p>

<p>Lights, color and people. An amazing place</p>

<p>Maids line the streets, trying to lure in passersby </p>

<p>Three people, three different lives </p>

<p>So many great opportunities for photos </p>

To me, Tokyo at night is the most exciting place in the world, easily. It's a pure, electronic, photogenic ball of light. It has so many areas that explode into color and life when darkness arrives on the scene, one of which is Akihabara, another jewel to add to Tokyo's vast treasure of riches.

Here is a place overflowing with radiance: lights, anime billboards, orange, yellow, black, and green taxis, plus gleaming buildings. It's also an area full of sound: music, souped-up cars, trains, and people walking, talking, and rushing over crossings.

In the day it's addictive, at night it's intoxicating, and the heart of anime culture in Japan beats faster, filling its street-like veins with electric light. Akihabara is awesome.

Daniel Vesey @daniel.vesey

I graduated from University of Hertfordshire in the UK in 2014, with a 2:1 in Mass Communications. I have since worked in China for a Media and PR Company as a writer and photographer and also as a foreign editor for a English website for the expatriate community in Guangzhou. I am a big fan of t...