Man crossing a narrow residential street with a painted stop marking in Japan

Photo: Alpgiray Kelem · Japan · 2026-06-10 · Editorial use

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Tokyo, Japan - June 10, 2026: A man in a pink shirt and a cap walks across the end of a narrow residential street in a Japanese neighborhood. The Japanese characters for stop are painted in large white letters on the asphalt in front of him, and a red triangular sign reading STOP stands on a pole at the corner beside a blue direction sign. To the left, a gravel plot planted with rows of green seedlings fronts older two-story houses with wooden balconies and a red facade. Across the street rises a modern white apartment block with glass balconies and air conditioning units. Small white vans and passenger cars are parked in front of the building and in an open lot on the right, under a dense web of overhead power lines.

• Architecture
• City Life
• Street
• Afternoon
• Air Conditioner
• Apartment
• Asphalt
• Balcony
• Cap
• Car
• Contrasts
• Crossing
• Crossroad
• Diminishing Perspective
• Directional Sign
• East Asia
• Glass
• Gravel
• Japan
• Japanese Language
• Japanese Script
• Narrow
• Old-fashioned
• Parking Lot