Japan feels very much like it got stuck in the 80s, a very futuristic and functional 80s but still basically still there .
Kamagasaki area in Osaka has a very extreme version of this uncanny time machine effect. Everything old and dilapidated playing enka music through all the tannoys, cafes where everything has a fine layer of dust and stench of stale smoke. seedy bars with old men wearing long coats and trilby's. A really surreal redlight district lit up with red lanterns and rows of individual open shopfronts. Women sat alone like dolls in brightly lit dollhouses, fixed smiles, mountains of make-up and dressed up in different themes. grumpy old ladies sat beside trying to heckle you in. has one of the very few slum areas in Japan.
Kamagasaki area in Osaka has a very extreme version of this uncanny time machine effect. Everything old and dilapidated playing enka music through all the tannoys, cafes where everything has a fine layer of dust and stench of stale smoke. seedy bars with old men wearing long coats and trilby's. A really surreal redlight district lit up with red lanterns and rows of individual open shopfronts. Women sat alone like dolls in brightly lit dollhouses, fixed smiles, mountains of make-up and dressed up in different themes. grumpy old ladies sat beside trying to heckle you in. has one of the very few slum areas in Japan.
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