High summer is an awful time to be in Tokyo, when temperatures exceed 30ºC on a daily basis. What makes it even worse this year is the non-stop noise from outside our apartment.
From 8.30am to 5pm we have the demolition crew, who have been clearing the land next to our apartment to make way for a new car showroom. They expect to finish everything by March 2009:
Then from 7pm to 3am we have the roadworks posse, who are laying new gas pipes underneath the main road. They have at least five light-sabre-wielding traffic monitors along a 50-metre stretch of road, one of whom you can see here:
Thankfully I usually don’t get back from work until after 7pm on weekdays so I miss the demolition. However, the $#&%ers insist on working Saturdays: I’m currently struggling to hear myself think over the noise of drills, diggers and crushing concete.
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I feel your pain. Just a few months ago they finished building a new apartment building right across the street from mine. Those bastards worked on Saturdays, and even some Sundays and holidays.
And that was the second time it happened to me, at another apartment the same thing. So two of my five years in Tokyo have been in constant noise.
That’s not even counting random street construction until 5am, ludicrous ambulances and fire trucks, the dude who wants to buy your old stereo, nationalists, and politicians.
Can’t wait to get out of this noisy city next year.