Tokyo Neon Street Rain Countdown Timer

This is the Tokyo that people come for and then discover is real, a street in the Kabukicho or Shibuya area at night, wet from rain, stacked with signs in every colour the human eye can process, and taxis lined up at the kerb with their lights on. The processing here is aggressive, all that HDR crunch and the halo around the streetlamps, and normally I would not go near it, but on a wet night in this city it is almost accurate, because the light really is that much and it really does bounce off everything. The long exposure has turned the traffic into streaks of red and white and the puddles into sheets of colour. A man is standing at the crossing on the left, waiting, the only still thing in a frame full of movement. Somebody is walking past a shop sign shaped like a giant letter on the right. The air smells of rain on hot pavement and cooking oil from somewhere. I stood under an awning for ten minutes, took this, and then went and bought a coffee from a machine, which is what you do here.