Osaka, like much of Japan, is full of oddly-shaped buildings, oddly arranged, with lots of odd bits. Take the aerial shot of this building, for example. I just don't get it. Did the builders make it up as they went along? Was the designer a graduate of The Utterly Ridiculous & Completely Nonsensical School of Attempted Design? What's that jutting-out bit in the left corner for? And the window on the roof? And that other angled bit going along towards the other building?

Hang on a minute, on closer inspection, hasn't all the dirt formed itself into a ghostly image of the late American actor, Telly Savalas there in the bottom left? Perhaps I'll be able to sell that roof on eBay.

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