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A 3-meter-high banner stretches in from of a construction site against a wooded hillside, reading (in English translation) “Mitsui Outlet Park Okazaki (provisional name) / Opening in 2025”

Satellite image of a 7-11 store and its surrounding parking lot.

Nighttime view of the entrance to a public bath, with a noren (doorway curtain) decorated in a colorful image of Mount Fuji.

The glassed-in entrance to a coffee shop, with outdoor seating.

Entrance to a coffee shop, with a number of bicycles parked in front, and queue of customers awaiting entry. The building is a nondescript grey stucco, the entrance doorway is framed in varnished wood, and a large tree branch leans in across the scene.

A loaded cargo bike parked in front of a vegetable stand. The greens of a bundle of large long onions projects from the rear of the cargo bike’s saddle bags like a short horse’s tail.

A closer view of the cargo bike parked in front of a vegetable stand.

Cargo bike parked in front of Tachiya, a Nagoya food market, after closing time.