Point Zero

Two elevated roads are seen from underneath on a brick or cobblestone bridge, with skyscrapers in the distance. A few people are walking on the bridge's sidewalk. Between the two elevated roads, an asymmetric pair of arms are mounted. Their intersection supports an elaborate metal lamppost.
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Two elevated roads are seen from underneath on a brick or cobblestone bridge, with skyscrapers in the distance. A few people are walking on the bridge's sidewalk. Between the two elevated roads, an asymmetric pair of arms are mounted. Their intersection supports an elaborate metal lamppost.
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"I visited a lamp post on a bridge in tokyo that has been used as the center point for distance measurements for centuries. In the 1960s they built an expressway over it but made sure to suspend a replica of that lamp post over precisely the same spot. It’s a totally gratuitous shrine to infrastructure and I love it"

More information on the Dorogenpyo (Zero Point), dating to 1605 and from which Japan's five major highways' mileposts are measured, at https://projectglobal.nl/13B. (The actual zero point is apparently the marker on the underneath of the lamppost.)

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