Photo of the Day (5/10/08)
As I was browsing through the Gadling pool, the thumbnail of this photo caught my eye. From a smaller perspective it looked like a posed shot of tourists, happy to take a picture resembling the Beatles. But when I clicked on the photo and got to see the larger version, I was happy to see that it was in fact an adorable chain of Japanese children crossing the street. The woman in the back waves enthusiastically at the camera, and even the little child in pink attempts to do the same. One word: cute. With this photo, hikikomorix managed to capture the delight of a very simple everyday activity.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
May 10th 2008 @ 5:34PM
Shane said...
This is a cute photo and a fairly common sight in Japan. There are also adorable wagons decorated like circus animals or just brightly painted that the preschools use to move the children about In my neighborhood the preschool bus looks like a train driving down the street and I imagine that makes it a lot easier for the Mom's to get their kids on the bus because, well, it just looks like it would be fun!
Thanks for sharing this photo - everyday life has a lot of wonder in it too and hikikomorix did a great job of catpuirng it in this picture.
Shane Sakata
The Tokyo Traveler
http://www.thetokyotraveler.com
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May 12th 2008 @ 6:04AM
Andy M said...
As Shane says this is a common sight in Japan, but they are not waving at the camera - in Japan children are taught to raise their hands when they are crossing the road. My assumption about this is that it increases their visibility and shows that they want to cross the road not just hang around on the pavement. Sometimes older people do this getting out of elevators also getting off trains and buses.
AndyM
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May 12th 2008 @ 2:56PM
paul said...
It's kind of like the Beatles Abbey Road album cover.
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