Tokyo Skytree Night Highway Countdown Timer

Tokyo Skytree stands off to the right of the frame, lit up in that chameleon way it does, blue and white and a hint of pink, and the elevated highway below it is a river of red tail lights running out of the picture. Between them sits a neighbourhood of low buildings and trees and one white apartment block with its windows lit, which is the part I actually like. Because that is the truth of this city. The famous tower is over there being famous, and everyone else is living in a four-storey building with a balcony and a bicycle, and the two things exist in the same frame without any contradiction at all. There is a green strip of trees along the embankment, lit from below, and a pedestrian stair going down on the left. The sky is that heavy low cloud that turns orange from the city lights. I shot this from a footbridge, with my elbows on the rail, waiting for a gap in the traffic that never came, so I let the cars blur instead, and that turned out better anyway. Then the light went green and I walked across and went home.