Asahi Kasei, the company where I worked six years ago researching about speech recognition systems, also designs and builds houses. One of their latest designs is a house specially designed to live together with cats.
The cat-friendly house is designed so that humans can coexist with several cats while the cats can move in total freedom around all the house. The house includes a WC for cats, doors for cats, stairs that only cats can use…
Source: Fayerwayer
When somebody asks me for a truly “weird” place in Tokyo, the Turkish mosque in Yoyogi Uehara is one of the places that comes to my mind. It’s not really impressive but if you visit it, it will make you feel like you are outside Japan for some moments, it’s a quite mysterious sensation. The mosque is located in Inokashira avenue, just outside Yoyogi Uehara station (Odakyu and Chiyoda lines)
I came across these mosaics in a mysterious office building in Akihabara that we visited the other day; they are somewhat weird but original anyhow.
