
Dining. Women seated inside a small restaurant as pedestrians walk past in Japan (blurred motion)
Photo: Alpgiray Kelem · Japan · 2026-06-11 · Editorial use
Tokyo, Japan - June 11, 2026: A group of young women sits at small tables inside a street-level restaurant in Japan while pedestrians walk past its glass doors. One woman faces the street with her hands clasped under her chin and smiles across the table, and two others smile at the next table. In the foreground, men in a pink shirt, a brown jacket and a blue shirt pass in a blur of motion. A brown noren curtain printed with the name Hama-chan hangs above the entrance, and shelves of bottles, glasses and baskets fill the counter behind the diners under a bare bulb. A pink sign on the glass reads "The entrance is over there" in Japanese with two arrows, and a paper notice beside it lists opening hours from 11:30 and last order at 22:00.
- City Life
- Food and Drink
- Street
- Arrow Symbol
- Basket
- Blurred Motion
- Bottle
- Commercial Sign
- Crowd of People
- Dining
- Door
- Drinking Glass
- East Asia
- Incidental People
- Information Sign
- Jacket
- Japan
- Japanese Culture
- Japanese Language
- Japanese Script
- Light Bulb
- Looking Through Window
- Nightlife
- Noren
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