There are a great many things I love about Japan. Sushi. Akihabara. Karate. Origami. Sake. The list goes on. But one of the very coolest things about Japan is the respect that is given to pop culture heroes.
For instance, at Kyoto railway station, there’s a statue of Astro Boy. And as you see above, in the home town of sci-fi special effects supremo Eiji Tsuburaya (famous for his work on Godzilla), the electric transformer boxes are painted with silhouettes of Ultraman monsters in his honour. [Pink Tentacle]via [Tokyomango] .
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Friday, October 2, 2009 at 12:42 PMDid you know that each Tokyo train station on the main JR line around town has its own tune that plays when trains are arriving and departing. We suspected this was to wake up the poor hard working inner city dudes that are always asleep on the trains and reminds them it’s their stop.
One of the stations actually plays the Astro Boy theme. Very cute.