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Shibuya singer

Wednesday 09th April, 08:00 PM JST

A street performer sings as commuters pass by at Shibuya station.
PHOTO BY ALAN NEWTON

12 Comments

  • some14some at 08:14 PM JST - 9th April

    Nice picture showing reality that the things are going down in Japan.

  • viking68 at 08:50 PM JST - 9th April

    Great picture. It is good that people can play in public. I can't always agree that the singing works out, but they all seem to be decent at playing instruments.

  • TokyoHaze at 10:10 PM JST - 9th April

    Usually I'm not a fan of Photoshop effects, but in this case the effect works really well. This looks like a great piece of pop-art, created from the real world. Nicely done!

  • jeancolmar at 10:29 PM JST - 9th April

    NIcely done.

  • taiko666 at 12:42 AM JST - 10th April

    I've been busking regularly ('street live' as they call it here) for 4 years with my Japanese friends, in Shibuya, Shinjuku, Kichijoji etc. It's tremendous fun, and provides good publicity for the artists- which is why they do it (money is not usually offered.) However, it's not legal... my friends and I have been moved on by the police many times, and even booked a couple of times. On those occasions, my Japanese friends have had to cough up 30,000 yen each, but the police have always completely ignored me!

  • quickei at 02:24 AM JST - 10th April

    I Think its cool to see someone doing that on the streets. It does show poor demographic though.

  • rjd_jr at 08:31 AM JST - 10th April

    Cool picture

  • nutsagain at 08:41 AM JST - 10th April

    taiko666 Not for the money, huh? I met a one-man-band act from Australia who said he'd bought four, that's right, 4 houses in his country from many years of busking in Japan. Sounds like a sweet job to me but granted, he's been at it a while including the bubble years.

  • nisegaijin at 09:24 AM JST - 10th April

    ah, the highlight of Japanese fashion: skirt and jeans!

  • Notginger at 10:44 AM JST - 10th April

    Skit, jeans and a benpi expression.

  • greenteaonsens at 10:48 AM JST - 10th April

    ah, the highlight of Japanese fashion: skirt and jeans!

    At least she's slim enough to get away with it. I've seen heffers try the same fashion and they just look all kinds of wrong!

    As for the expression on her face, at least she has one which is more than you can say for 99% of the people in Tokyo

  • notimpressed at 11:10 AM JST - 10th April

    Might have been cold that day, becasue a lot of other people in the pic are wearing scarves. Wouldnt catch me in a pair of shorts during the past winter. Not to mention other countries do the skirt and jeans thing too. and yup, not much expression on most faces out there.

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