(210) The long arm of the station master

The thing this station employee is holding is a device to pick-up things that get dropped from the platform to the rails. And it is called “majiku-hando” (マジックハンド) –with a little imagination, you can understand why.

Picture by: Toyama Atsuko

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr)