早朝の秋葉原です。秋葉原はかれこれ25年くらい定期的に通い続けている街です。あまりこのブログでは語っていませんが、好きな街の一つです。好きすぎであまり積極的に”写真”に収めてきていませんでした。(iPhoneで雑に撮った写真は多々ありますが)。
秋葉原って、世界的にも有名な街ですが、とにかく街の規模として見ると小さいんですよね。秋葉原に限らずですが、東京は街と言う単位で見るとやっぱ小さい。秋葉原はそんな中でも情報量が多く、それをどう写真として収めるか？を考えるとあまり手を出してきていませんでした。
ちょっと方向性を変えてみて、人気の少ない6時台の早朝に撮ってみようと思って撮ってみました。まだ何枚かあるので数回にわたって載せてこうかと思いますが、人気のない秋葉原…日中とは大違いです。
とりあえず、昭和口方面から万世橋近辺を今回は。
This is Akihabara in the early morning. Akihabara is a town I have been visiting regularly for about 25 years. I have not talked about it much on this blog, but it is one of my favorite places. I like it so much that I have not been actively taking “pictures” of it. (Although I have taken many rough pictures with my iPhone).
Akihabara is a world-famous town, but it is a small town in terms of size. It is not limited to Akihabara, but Tokyo is small in terms of the size of a city. Even in such a small city, Akihabara has a lot of information, so how to capture it in a photograph? I had not been able to do so much in terms of it.
I decided to change the direction a bit and try taking pictures early in the morning at 6:00 a.m., when it is less popular. There are still a few pictures, so I will post them several times, but Akihabara without any popularity…it is very different from daytime.
For now, I will focus on the Bansebashi area from the Showa-guchi direction this time.
万世橋近辺は大きく変わった、整備された場所ですね。整備されて大分時間は経ちましたが、まだ、どこか秋葉原とは溶け合いきれてない異質さがここにもあります。単純に少しオシャレすぎるんですよね。とはいえ、そういう異質さが混同するのもまた秋葉原という街なんだと思います。変わらない神田川がどこか安心感を出してくれます。
The Mansebashi area is a very different and clean-re-developed place before. Although much time has passed since it was developed, there is still a sense of strangeness here that somehow doesn’t quite blend in with Akihabara. It is simply a little too fashionable. However, I think it is Akihabara as a town where such dissimilarities are mixed together. The unchanging Kanda River gives us a sense of security.
All photos taken by FUJIFILM X100V.
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