This channel strolls and explores Yokosuka's intricate back alleys and excessive staircases.
Yokosuka, which experienced rapid development in the age of modernism, has many towns that were built on narrow, steep slopes by forcibly creating housing lots halfway up the slopes.
There are narrow and intricate alleys that are inaccessible by car, houses that can only be reached by stairs, and valley doors surrounded by high retaining walls.
While these have gradually deteriorated over time, and look like ruins, they have been repaired and preserved little by little, and still retain their town forms.
I moved to Yokosuka because I felt a strange sympathy for such a form of town. This town seems to be a symbol of Japan, which is becoming disfigured and declining.
My main occupation is painting, but every day I turn my camera around as I stroll through the back alleys of Yokosuka. I am training to shoot video.
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