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Sony building

Stopping by at the Sony building is something usual if you visit Ginza. Some years ago it was more fun because you could play with some Aibos that were on display. Anyway the visit is still interesting, the coolest thing you can find now are XEL-1 screens. In the first floor you can usually find exhibitions and in the last floor audiovisual events. These are some of the pictures I took in my last visit to the Sony building three weeks ago:

Sony building
A huge leg was decorating the building facade.

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building
“Sony Life” is a Sony company that offers insurance plans, retirement plans, saving plans, etc. I think they only operate in Japan. Inside the building there is an office where you can inform yourself about all the services offered.

Sony building

Sony building
This is a “plane simulator”. You enter inside the simulator and you hear a noise similar to the noise you hear when you are inside a plane, its purpose is to show how effective Sony noise-cancelling headphones are.

Sony building
Bravia screens exhibition showing images of the Moon recorded by a Sony HD camera that travelled to the moon in a JAXA mission.

Sony building

Sony building
Jaxa satellite that travelled to the Moon with Sony equipment.

Sony building

Sony building
An OLED screen in the middle of the picture.

Sony building
Exhibition of World Heritage Sites built with LEGO.

Sony building
Itsukushima temple is specially “LEGOgenic”.

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building

Sony building
More OLED screens.

Sony building

Sony building

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Summer in Tokyo

I love this video arranged and with original music by Joan Jiménez showing images from last summer in Tokyo.

Reality is the contrast between what we have inside and what exists outside. I invite you to a shared trip to Tokyo where I put eyes and music and you all put the sensations…

Switch off the lights and make it full screen:


I have been living in Tokyo for more than 5 years now, and I still love it like the first time!

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A friend going back to Europe

My friend Ignacio is forced to go back to Spain after almost one year living here in Tokyo. He is leaving because of the crisis, he had a place here in Tokyo but he does not have it anymore.

One of the things I don’t like about living in Tokyo is that most of the people stays here just for a while, people comes and people leaves. I make friends and friends leave. And not only foreigners, also Japanese from other places come to Tokyo to make money for some years and after a while they go back to their home province. I don’t like it, but thanks to the Internet is not that bad. Also, in the case of Ignacio, I’m sure that he will be back to Japan sooner or later, he loves Japan and he wants to taste it a little bit more.

Ignacio is an excellent photographer, he uses a modest Nikon D80 but look at these AMAZING pictures he took during the last year:

To Ignacio and to all of you who had to leave Japan because of the crises we are waiting for you in Japan!