1R, XK, XDK, XLDK

The average size of an apartment is sixty seven square meters per household. Many agents will refer to the price of the apartment per tsubo (one tsubo = 3.3 sqm).

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“AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY”

Certain spaces are framed out of the urban condition, made impenetrable to the public domain, mostly for security reasons. Power plants, control rooms, electrical cabins, transformers, and emergency fire hydrants, represent the high number of “pocket-spaces”, or “urban pockets”, within contemporary cities.

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BENTO

Bento is a traditional meal box in Japan, which people bring with them in order to have it as lunch or dinner. Inside bento, many kinds of food are prepared in it. From the perspective of examining bento in detail, all these delicious dishes demonstrate the food system in Japan, which could be briefly separated into four phases: source of foods, distribution, manufacturing, and consumption.

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ELECTRICITY METER

An electronic meter is an automatic reader that measures electricity usage and monitors power quality, communicating the data to the gateway node.

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LIGHT CULTURE

The Japanese Color Woodblock Print, Spring Night at Ginza by Kasamatsu Shirō, originally made in 1934[1], portays a nostalgic glimpse of the Ginza of budding willows and soft lights before it became a carnival of flashing neon. By this illustration, many interesting facts are shown, about the atmosphere and light in the Ginza area.

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