{"id":57950,"date":"2023-08-31T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/aug\/31\/tokyo-coin-operated-laundries-japan-in-pictures"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:00:37","slug":"tokyos-coin-operated-laundries-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57950","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo\u2019s coin-operated laundries \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two decades. In addition to the usual services, they provide speciality machines for cleaning sports shoes, pillows and heavy blankets. For Philip Fong they are a novelty not found in his hometown of Hong Kong. The photographer is drawn to Tokyo\u2019s 24-hour laundromats, located in unassuming residential areas. Fong says: \u2018I do really like the atmosphere of those shops in the quiet night, with warm, colour-toned washing machines\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/aug\/31\/tokyo-coin-operated-laundries-japan-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two decades. In addition to the usual services, they provide speciality machines for cleaning sports shoes, pillows and heavy blankets. For Philip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,41,71,88,92,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan","category-photography","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57950\/revisions\/57951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}