March 09, 2005

Tokyo G-Cans Project Tour Guide for the Western Tourist

I'm taking a vacation to Tokyo next week. I wondered if it was possible to tour the amazing G-Cans project of Tokyo as featured on BoingBoing.

There isn't a lick of English to be found on the site, and I don't speak of lick of Japanese, so I asked my Japanese Colleague to check it out for me:

So it's bad news for me (the tour is full) but it should be good news for others who want to tour the project in May or later -- it is possible. It will take some work. If you can't read the tour details in Japanese on the Edogawa River Office, you can read Google's All Your G-cans are belong to us translation. You might even take a flyer and contact the office and beg for an english speaker:

    Inquiry: Flow mansion 344-0002 Haruhibu city gutter basket letter willow field 997 TEL: 048 - 763 - 4416 Morning 9: 00 - In the afternoon 4: 30 Monday close

Ultimately you're probably still going to need to get a Japanese speaker to help you out -- I highly doubt the tour itself has an English version, and you'd definitely want to hear all the amazing technical details about this place.

I would love to hear if anyone manages to get a tour of the Gcans project, bonus points for an English explanation.

Posted by Nils Blutig at March 9, 2005 10:38 PM | TrackBack