Night Lights

Where: Osaka, Japan
When: July 2010

Here in all its neon splendor is Dotonbori, the always-hopping center of Osaka and the home of Glico Man, a drumming clown, a massive crab, and a KFC statue that has cursed the local baseball team (thanks to being thrown into the river in 1985). There's more to the place than Glico Man, seen here running on a blue track as he has since 1935, but this is the part of the strip that gets photographed the most and, OK, call me a sucker.