№ 01
a sneaker print pressed flat in wet concrete, Sangenjaya
35.6432, 139.6709
Field Journal № 0 — 2026-05-07 · 06:14 JST
picked up off a train bench in Shimokitazawa, never returned — a route traced over a photograph that was never taken.
← start here, scroll = walk
The Map
PLATE II · ORIENTATION · 35.661° N, 139.668° E
Legend
- walked, recorded
- walked, half-remembered
- a junction where it rippled
≈ 220m to the next puddle
The Catalogue
PLATE III · COLLECTED SOLES · 14 entries · ongoing
№ 05
two boot heels, parallel, never meeting — a hesitation
35.6585, 139.7016
№ 09
a barefoot smudge on a stairwell, painted over by morning
35.6701, 139.6589
№ 14
a child's print beside a dog's — a circle, then gone
35.6520, 139.6800
they refuse to align ✦
Field Notes
If you walk long enough the city stops being addresses and starts being weather. Puddles become mirrors. A sole print is a signature you didn't mean to sign.
I keep these because somebody should — the soft archaeology of a Tuesday, the way a footstep ripples outward in concrete that is no longer wet but remembers.
Getting lost on purpose is the only honest map. The notebook fell open here. You're already further than you think.
— the cartographer, somewhere off the lower-right edge
(scribbled in pencil, mostly)
Departure
PLATE V · THE TRAIL CONTINUES · → off-screen
the last footprint dissolves into a ripple and exits the page — keep walking.
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