Peugeot 504 on the way to repairs in Koudougou, Burkina Faso. This model came out in 1968 when I was ten years old. 43 years later they can regularly be seen in traffic in Western Africa.

Beautiful Trash! Both the tow truck and the loaded Mini Mayfair must have been resting here fore a long time. The unforgiving humid and salty air close to cape Sunosaki has reduced them both into hardly recognizable sculptures of rust. No clear winner between British and Japanese steel! HDR developed from one shot with the M3 and the F17-40L lens.

Beautiful Trash! Both the tow truck and the loaded Mini Mayfair must have been resting here fore a long time. The unforgiving humid and salty air close to cape Sunosaki has reduced them both into hardly recognizable sculptures of rust. No clear winner between British and Japanese steel! HDR developed from one shot with the M3 and the F17-40L lens.

A rusty beetle from mid 1960 recently seen in Tokyo. Still roadworthy it seems being parked on a paying slot.

A rusty beetle from mid 1960 recently seen in Tokyo. Still roadworthy it seems being parked on a paying slot.

This bicycle is decorated with an incredible number of LED lights. Unfortunately I could not yet see it in action in the night.

Near Nikko I came to this gasoline station that must have closed down long time ago. The were several old Datsun and when I asked the man removed the plastic cover to reveal this beauty of the past.

Nowadays he is in tuning K-Cars which are the onces with the yesllow number plates and that have engines of small displacement, typically 660 cc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car

Even in the most remote and pristine areas of Japan there is always some kind of a trash yard. On he shore of the otherwise beautiful lake Chusenji it comes in the form of retired boats and pedalos. Are they waiting for resurecction?

The ulgy duck boats' demise. I really hate these boats in the form of ducks and how they can destroy an otherwise beautiful scenery. Here some of them have met their fateg!

Trying to take of in my purple helicopter.

View towards the department of mechanical engiering of the Tokyo University. In the middle a curious huge wind machine.

Tokyo University department of mechanical engineering. A absoltuley fantastic wind machine is here, rusty and idle and probably never used. Next to it the race car tuning club.

Tokyo University department of mechanical engineering, race car tuning club

Tokyo University department of mechanical engineering, race car tuning club

An MG B awaiting its unsure future.

Tokyo University department of mechanical engineering, race car tuning club

The huge funnel on top of the brickstone factory building.

What must be the inlet of the wind machine in Tokyo University, department of mechanical engineering

Air conditionning unit at the Tokyo University

Tokyo University. Left is the department of pediratic surgery and right an old industrial brick building with all access blocked. Probably the latter will be demolished soon.

These two children bicycles in front of an abandoned house must have stood here for many years as they are totally rusty and decayed. I observed them many times when going for a coffee in an old shop called Furusato, as my office was nearby. The coffee shop was also a quite antique place and the owner, an old lady lived upstairs. I took this photo on December 26th, 2010. I was always wondering what must have happened to the family that had lived in the place, leaving the children’s bicycles just behind. End of 2015 my office was moved from Tsukishima to another other place in Tokyo. I only came back in September 2019 on a walk through my old neighborhood to find out the whole block had been razed for the construction of a huge tower building. So finally, the evidence of this story has been removed irrevocably and the memory remains only in my head and on this photograph. The coffee shop re-opened a short distance away.

Walking back from lunch to my office in Tsukishima I noticed this improvised umbrella hanger. Japan is a trash society and in many places bicycles or even cars can stand just wehre the last trip ended and rot there for a long time. Often the nature claims the place back and plants overgrow the rusty remnants.