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About 15 years ago, when I lived in Silicon Valley, there were a few shops that looked a bit like the ones in your Japan slideshow. Where you could get tubes (mostly used pulls, and they had a tube tester so you could try before you buy), caps and other tube related parts.
About 20 years ago I was in Kyoto for a week. One thing I noticed that they didn't seem to have zoning (In America, towns state that certain areas of land will be for houses, others for commercial, stores, other for industrial and so on.) Kyoto seemed totally random. They had lots of temples, most surrounded by the rear end of factories, restaurants, office buildings, stores and such.
In Kyoto the power distribution system was atop metal telephone poles, even in the center city. That's always underground in American center cities.
There were some people exercising their 1st Amendment (free speech) rights with megaphones and most everyone exercised their rights to ignore whatever it was they were talking about.
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