No, that’s not a giant red dildo. It’s THE Hot Pepper spotted in front of Shimokitazawa station. Hot Pepper is a FREE magazine full of coupons and town information like restaurants, shops, services etc. Guides are very important if you want to enjoy Tokyo. There are tons of excellent and obscure shops that you will never find by just walking around on the street. Unfortunately, most of the guides are in Japanese only so if you can’t read Japanese you’ll have to settle for Metropolis which by the way was the first real FREE magazine in this country, previously known as Tokyo Classifieds.
Years ago in Japan, FREE meant “not worth anything of value” and people were suspicious if you tried to give anything away i.e. there was always a catch. But for the current generation FREE simply means “Yey FREE! Yatta!”
seen the same one in Nakano
my girlfriend didn’t see it until we were right next to it and I pointed it out, she was totally scared and ran away… it was hilarious!
Hmmm….
Like looks more like a phallus then a pepper. Either that or what the hell kind of peppers do they have in Japan!