The Japanese manhole covers aren’t the only cutely decorated public utility items. Nine years ago, the Sendai-based company Sendaimeiban, in collaboration to the Asahiyama Zoo of Hokkaido, created a set of unusual roadside barriers, shaped as funny and cute animals.

It seems to me that the first model was a monkey, but the series was expanded, and among them are also these amusing giraffes (the almost crossed eyes are so cute), photographed in Hakodate.

Japanese roadside barriers, Hakodate

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Yesterday’s Japan Photo: Zen garden patterns, Ginsyadan, the white sand waves