I walked Sachi to the station this morning before going off to do some birdwatching (next post), and on the way back, snapped some photos of the pre-business mall walk. This is an upscale area just out of Meguro.

This one I’m not sure I figured out. It’s twenty people lined up to get into a pachinko parlor/game center, at maybe 8:15 am. Was there some special new game that gets 20 forty- and fifty-somethings up before eight a.m. on Sunday morning? Or do they do this every week? Note the mini-chairs many are using.

This shop is interesting as it’s not some Japanese faux-American rapster joint or something–it’s a clothing shop and the proprietor is an African-American man, as I’ve observed while passing by during business hours. Not something you’d expect to see on an upscale Japanese walk-and-shop mall. I wonder if he has local shoppers coming in all the time and then seeing him and slooowly backing out…

And this is a chiropractor’s sign. They got the foot OK, but what the heck is with the hand? Is that a hand? If not, then what the heck is it?