#OMIYA

2026-01-29
The meteoric rise of the #Suica transportation card #penguin mascot to merch store manager! At #Omiya station in #Saitama #Japan #JR #JRE #JR東日本 #日本 #埼玉県 #さいたま市 #大宮駅 #スイカ #ペンギン
This is a picture of a 1m or 3ft high statue on a pedestal of the penguin mascot wearing a matching hat and apron of white and green stripes holding a sign with the English word "open" in its flippers. The door it's placed in front of has been painted green. Above it is a sticker of a torii gate, some animals, and the Japanese for "Omiya station." On the pedestal it reads "store manager" also in Japanese.
2026-01-20
From a distance I thought this was a temple. But as I got closer I realized this isn't that. I cannot shake the suspicion that this is a place of commerce but Google doesn't have it listed. It's pretty, big, *and* intriguing. #Omiya ward #Saitama #Japan #日本 #埼玉県 #さいたま市 #大宮区
A multi-storey building built in old Japanese style. It's mansion-sized (in the English language sense), surrounded by a wall. The footprint of this building is rectangular but the higher up one looks the more chaotic it becomes with randomly protruding bays and nesting roofs. Shot on an overcast day.
2026-01-02
A small wooden shrine whose doors are open surrounds a stone pillar with an icon at the top.
2025-12-01
Under the bridge downtown #Omiya you will find #Japan also has a graffiti problem #Saitama #日本 #埼玉県 #さいたま市 #大宮
Overhead is a road bridge and I'm standing under it looking parallel down it. The space under the bridge here is filled with buildings, so we're looking at a wall. The wall is covered with stuff, mostly black tags. Japan's graffiti problem isn't as big as other country's but it does exist.
2025-11-16
Yeah, maybe don't let toddlers design buildings ... The dumbest building near #Omiya station in #Saitama #Japan #日本 #埼玉県 #さいたま市 #大宮 #大宮駅
We are looking over the top of a truck cut off at the bottom and past a high rise building under construction on the right at the center, where a building shaped like a rocket stands in the middle of it all. It's 5-6 storeys tall. The building is a round booster rocket and a miniature space shuttle is at the top. It's coated in golden metal plating. Both the building under construction and some low nondescript buildings are blocking the view a bit. There is another big blocky building in the background and just a bit of hazy sky in the upper right hand corner.

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