KITAMI EKI

Gaze through a window in the platform back wall (Shinjuku direction) and there is a plaque advertising a wondrous private clinic. Namely Brain Treatment System. Couple of visits should have you thinking more clearly.

KYODO EKI

Nothing like a good dental ad. Not least as you gaze from the Kyodo platform to a wall poster calling you to Sarurai Dentalpia. Could be a tooth-convention, even a deviant tooth-tendency.

SANGUBASHI EKI

Couple of stops from Shinjuku and there is an invitation to step into time as much as place. A platform sign reads – ‘Please get off at this station for Meiji Jingu’. The original shrine was built to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shō ken, destroyed in World War II bombing, and then re-created in 1958. Historic modernity several times over.

MINAMI SHINJUKU EKI

Essential facilities. Clearest word-and-picture indication, men and women, of where to go when you have got to go.

SETAGAYA-DAITA

One of several temporary plastic wall-coverings as the Odakyū-sen engineering work proceeds. Full of tile-like pattern. Small blocks colour-squares. With a small effort of imagination it puts you in mind of Mondrian or Miro. Japanese station cubism with a dash of Europe?

SWITCH TO GINZA LINE

LET's KIOSK, WHY NOT?

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