Views of Japan

Views of Japan you won't find in guide books!

Inside the Hiratsuka City Office, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture. This place is like stepping back in time. The whole place is like being back in the 1960’s! Mountains of paper, old maps that smell, piles of old books with the city ordinances, filing cabinets crammed with application forms, it is certainly not what you would expect of Japan. Rather, it always made me feel I was back in the Philippines. 
And just to prove that Hiratsuka can uphold the image of being rather outdated and backward - staff are still using Windows 2000! 

Inside the Hiratsuka City Office, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture. This place is like stepping back in time. The whole place is like being back in the 1960’s! Mountains of paper, old maps that smell, piles of old books with the city ordinances, filing cabinets crammed with application forms, it is certainly not what you would expect of Japan. Rather, it always made me feel I was back in the Philippines. 

And just to prove that Hiratsuka can uphold the image of being rather outdated and backward - staff are still using Windows 2000!