Japan

Wow, here in the north-west sprawl of Tokyo, when they say public toilet, they really mean it! A glance up at a nearby sign reveals that this is actually a shop window display for a shop selling toilets made by…

As more and more street-level imagery keeps getting added, it's time for another Friday Street View Roundup - and today's theme is "Crime on Street View"! 8) Indecent Exposure This woman's dignity has been saved by a bit of face-blurring!…

Here at Google Sightseeing we love to explore abandoned, off-limits places, much as the rest of the Internet does - from a safe distance. In the past we've featured abandoned towns, cities, mines and even whole abandoned islands, but we've…

This bizarre tower is the Perfect Liberty Peace Tower in Tondabayashi, Japan, and from up here it looks like it might be constructed entirely from cotton-wool. Completed in 1970 this incredibly oddly-shaped tower stands at 180 m, and was actually…

On this day, August 6, in 1945 - the first nuclear weapon to be used in war was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, Little Boy, was released at 8:15 local time by the American B-29 bomber…

Much to the annoyance of the tinfoil-hat privacy nuts, Street View's spread across the globe continues with two launches today: Japan and Australia! Japan has coverage in the following cities: Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Sendai, Sapporo, Hakodate, Kyoto and…