[msephton]

They're a book from the early 1990s called "Tokyo Style" that is packed with photos of real living conditions from back then. Chaos of every variety. Plus some Super Famicom and PC-Engines laying around. A very cool book, most recently reprinted in 2024 with Japanese/English captions.

[huntoa]

Here's the full book "Tokyo: a certain style" by Kyoichi Tsuzuki (same author), https://archive.org/details/tokyo-a-certain-style

[msephton]

I believe that's essentially the first English edition.

[ccozan]

and the cables, the cables hanging from everywhere!

( btw, has anyone noticed in anime there are always frames of street cabling? Like those cylindrical transformes and thick cables. Almost cyberpunk! )

[Symbiote]

The transformers are a result of a the lower voltage (also used in America), for efficiency and to keep the required voltage the transformer needs to be nearer to the house.

[pezezin]

We also have transformers in Europe, but they are hidden. Which incidentally makes them more reliable, as they are not exposed to the elements.