This page is mostly for personal/internal reference, but is public in case someone wants to help gather information/material/media. Alternatively, if you want more things to look for, you can use this list for reference of things you can research on your own.
NB: Writeups I can mostly handle, but can always use help in getting photos/additional media for new entries. If you have photos, video, sound recordings, etc that you’d like to contribute, please get in touch!
Unlinked entries on the list do not yet have write-ups. Links will be added as posts are added for different topics.
Entries are listed in alphabetical order. Topic titles and wording subject to change without notice.
If you’d like to submit something or suggest a topic to add to the list, please just get in touch.
- Abandoned and broken umbrellas
- Abandoned bicycles
- Abandoned buildings
- Adult DVD shops
- Adult shops (general)
- Alcohol and tobacco vending machines
- Animal cafes
- Animal-repellant bottles
- Anti-crow measures
- Anti-suicide lights
- Audio signals at pedestrian crossings
- Bicycle parking areas and structures
- Bosozoku
- Buddhist temples
- Buildings with cutaways for sunlight
- Buildings with odd names
- Businesses under elevated tracks
- Carts Full of Toddlers
- Citrus trees
- City emblems
- Coin laundries
- Coin lockers
- Dead fountains
- Fish heads and holly branches
- Fisheye mirrors
- Flea markets
- Food carts and trucks
- Fortune tellers
- Full-size, mature trees
- Futons airing on balconies
- Gachapon machines (capsule toys)
- Garbage cans
- Geocaches
- Go-home music
- Graffiti
- Hand-lettered signs
- Hoarder houses
- Hokora
- Honor-system and coin-locker fruits and vegetables
- Host/Hostess clubs
- Hostile architecture
- Hyperart Thomasson (Wiki page)
- Illustrations from Irasutoya
- Jizo Bosatsu
- Kissaten
- Less common forms of transportation
- Level crossings
- Litter
- Little parks
- Live houses
- Local festivals
- Lost items placed conspicuously
- Love hotels
- Maid cafes
- Manekineko
- Mascots
- Mikoshi
- Milk delivery boxes
- Morishio (piled salt)
- Musical kerosene trucks
- Neighborhood PA announcements
- Notable flowers
- Old hand-pump wells
- Old neighborhood paths
- Onsen
- Orange cones and barriers
- Pachinko balls on the street
- Pachinko parlors
- People in traditional dress
- Plant trace lines on walls
- Playground equipment
- Postboxes
- Promotional tissue packs
- Property boundary markers
- Public baths
- Public telephones
- Public transportation
- Red triangles
- Scaffolding
- Sea-level signs
- Shide and shimenawa
- Shinto shrines
- Shotengai
- Snack bars
- Soaplands and pink salons
- Specific and common signage
- Specific streetlights
- Station jingles
- Station stamps and others
- Surgical masks
- Taiko drums
- Tanuki statues
- Temple bells
- Tiled facads
- Tiny businesses
- Tofu sellers
- Torii
- Trunk rooms
- TUC shops
- Ultranationalists
- Unique manhole covers
- Vending machines (general)
- Vending machines (uncommon)
- Very small buildings
- Weird escalators
- Escalators with landings
- Wildlife
- Wire sheathing (protective)
- Yatai
- Yokocho
- Yomawari (evening fire patrol)
- Zakkyo buildings