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shibuya crossing

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2005.07.24

The famous intersection in Tokyo where you cross in any of five directions with usually hundreds of other people. Here are pics that show the rest of the big pedestrian surge.

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud