大阪自転車放棄禁止区域In a long pedestrian underpass - which runs directly under the JR lines into and out of Osaka Station - is a beat up but charming "No Bicycle Parking" sign.
Like many official proclamations in Japan's second city, it was ignored.
It was so done by the homeless men who appeared to be living and working there.
The men were selling comic books they had placed on the sidewalk. Each man had a bike, always a mama chari beater, that was used to get around and, no doubt, to get their goods to and from market.
And customers, mainly middle-aged guys, were buying.
A brisk business was taking place on a narrow sidewalk adjacent to a busy road - pictured below left - that runs under many, many train tracks. These entrepreneurs sleep rough and use old bikes to get around Osaka to buy and sell their wares.
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