re: #36 jaunte

That would be my question. Overhead wires in the city aren’t exactly unusual.

These people would go crazy in Japan. Overhead wires are EVERYWHERE. Apparently they’re easier to fix after an earthquake (who knew?). There are a couple of historical towns where one of the selling points is that the wires in the town have been buried so it looks like it would have in 1603. This as compared to wires seen everywhere in Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka…(can’t say about Tokyo as I haven’t been there). I’d note that there seems to be order among the chaos, however. People aren’t just hooking up every which way.