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2005.06.29

Smoke Station

Remember that smoking lounge I found in Akihabara a while back? Now comes the smoke station, tiny booths for your smoking needs. This one is located on Omotesando.

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Responses:

  1. the smoking lounge was/is gross.. we had one in the college i attendend.. though it was just a room. and underground. [but my whole dept was underground] anyways. something about the “smoking booth” just seems way cooler. it also has the funny side effect of making smoking a solitary act, verse a social act. smoking is so not as fun by yourself as it is with other people.

    05.06.29 4:39
    Posted by trevor
  2. Pardon me for being so naive, but is that some sort of vacuum machine to catch smoke or just a designated smoking spot? Enlighten me.

    p.s. love the blog, it’s a favorite read of mine.

    Casey - Los Angeles.

    05.06.29 13:20
    Posted by Casey
  3. Just a designated spot. Nothing that high-tech.

    05.06.29 13:49
    Posted by Jean Snow
  4. I believe it’s illegal to smoke on the streets in Tokyo, or at least many areas in Tokyo, so these designated smoking spots are popping up everywhere. Usually, they sport ads by Japan Tobacco.

    05.06.29 16:42
    Posted by jupiter
  5. I think the no-smoking ban is only in effect in a very few areas. They are, however, trying to enforce a no-dropping-cigarette-butts-on-the-street rule:
    http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/basic/basic09.html

    Speaking of JT, check out their zen-like “manner” posters:
    http://www.jti.co.jp/sstyle/manners/ad/change/gallery/index.html

    05.06.29 17:13
    Posted by goemon
  6. Wow, so Tokyo is even more harsh than California on smokers. Unusual. I wonder how it is in Europe.

    05.06.30 9:21
    Posted by Casey
  7. seen on the side of a cigarette machine in 1999

    http://museum.50megs.com/tokio/t03.html

    05.06.30 23:57
    Posted by ndkent
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