Except for the odd furtive fiddle on a train, drink-related transgressions in Tokyo are generally not too much of a problem, although it does appear that traffic cone tomfoolery after one or two too many is just as popular in the Japanese capital as it is in my native Britain.
An issue that the Japanese authorities have rather surprisingly tried to stamp out with the introduction of truly colossal cones.
Objects of such humongous proportions in fact that they are more akin to the size of a house than a hat, resulting in these two in downtown Shibuya — near the station and on a busy thoroughfare — commanding suitably sizeable rents.
Bunny says
Hilarious… if a little cone-y!
Chris says
haha… that was good for a laugh. The cone on Wellington really has become something of an icon of the randomness of Glasgow. I can understand the Japanese view on nonconformity, but those cones are mad!! lol
Brett says
Even Alan Partridge would have struggled to get that one home
an englishman in osaka says
There’s probably some drunk salarymen underneath those cones, wearing them as hats.
Big G says
I work next to the Wellington statue – the horse had a cone on its head too the other day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63509387@N00/1601169342/
Kody says
I know a guy from Glasgow who makes traffic cone hats. Always popular with the tourists.
http://www.myspace.com/glasgowhat
if you’re interested