FIXES

Street fire extinguisher storage secured with duct tape.

Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Street map in Shibuya annotated with print labels.

Materials: Print Labels
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Impromptu and hard to miss lost and found repository.

Materials: Post
Location: Akishima-shi, Tokyo

With the completion of a new rotary/taxi stand the route straight out of the station, to the convenience store and up the main street was cut off – necessitating a 2-3 minute detour around the side. For the time scarce suburban commuter this is not obviously not acceptable.

The state of the shrubbery is evidence of the foot-made solution – two well worn paths between the bushes leading in a straight line from the bottom of the stairs to the convenience store. Rule-abiding minds have attempted to discourage this use by placing traffic cones in the way, but to no avail…..

Materials:
Location: Akishima-shi, Tokyo

Signage requesting low volume usage of radio/CD players in the park.

Materials: Laminated A3
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Streetside storage for net used on rubbish day.

Materials: Shopping Basket, Plastic Twine, S-Hook
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Signage in subway station warning of purse-snatchers.

Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated A4
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Community saftey signage in subway station – watch out for purse snatchers, “Ore Ore” sagi, and break-ins.

Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated A4
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Pot plants along footpath used as bicycle parking.

Materials: Pot Plants
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Apartment bike parking, which is often free-space, ordered into fixed parking spaces with paper and tape.

Materials: Paper, Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Direction sign for Tokyo Tower at Akabanebashi Subway Station. Constructed of tourist brochure cut-outs and classic Tokyo public trasport duct tape lettering.

Materials: Duct Tape, Tourist Brochure
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo

Clarification signage in laminated A4.

Materials: Laminated Paper
Location: Shinjuku Station, Tokyo

Felt tipped pens, photocopied map, and tourist brochure combined to form an official information sign in a subway station near Tokyo Tower.

Materials: Felt Tipped Pens, Tourist Brochure, Photocopied Map
Location: Akabanebashi Subway Station, Tokyo

Shinjuku station signage, bilingual in all the important places.

Materials: Tape, Printed Labels
Location: Shinjuku Station, Tokyo

Fence as lost and found display for key.

Materials: Fence
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Fence as makeshift and adequate lost and found center.

Materials: Fence

Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Flying fox in a playground casually fixed with duct tape.

Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Nagoya, Aichi

As I rode my kick scooter across Tokyo from Shibuya to Ochanomizu, on the way to the Tokyo Mapping Workshop in the heat of summer I turned a corner in a deserted backstreet and ran straight into these monsters…… so tall they need to be tethered to the chain link fence for support as they wither.

Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Lots more Tokyo sunflowers [HERE] and on Tokyo Green Space [HERE]

Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening

Laminated signage in an inner city apartment complex.

Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated Paper
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Neighbourhood parent patrol sign (laminated A4) attached to bicycle with wire. With this set up, every time you use the bicycle you are performing a casual security check (Note: My bicycle)

Materials: Laminated Paper, Wire
Location: Akishima, Tokyo