Tunnel

横断地下道
おうだんちかどう
Underground passage (for crossing the road)

Garage Sign

駐車、早朝・夜間
ちゅうしゃ、そうちょう・やかん
Parking, early morning and late at night.

Illegal double parking is everywhere in Japan. People are always dropping things off, picking things up, trying to stay one step ahead of the traffic cops.

Park Ahead

注意、この先公園あり、麻布警察署、港区役所
ちゅうい、このさきこうえんあり、あざぶけいさつしょ、みなとくやくしょ
Caution, ahead there is a park, Azabu Police Station, Minato Ward Office.

I don't understand the need for this sign. It's in the back streets of Roppongi. It seems like a traffic sign, so perhaps it's to warn people that there may be kids running about. The thing is, the street it's on is really a narrow, slow moving type of street, I can't imagine anyone hooning up and down it dangerously.

Bus Station Sign

渋谷駅まで１５分
しぶやえきまで１５ふん
To Shibuya station, 15 minutes.

Library

図書館
としょかん
Library

Post Box

郵便
ゆうびん
Post / mail

This double crossed 'T' symbol is the postal symbol. 'T' for The Postal Service, I suppose.

Edit: Tokyo5 has kindly explained in the comments that "it's not a 'T'. It's 「〒」...it's from the katakana character 「テ」('te') for 「テガミ」 (tegami...which means 'postal letter')." Thanks, Tokyo5.

Shop Information

店舗・ご案内
てんぽ・ごあんない
Store information

Buildings are usually filled with a conglomeration of unrelated businesses, and if they are bars or restaurants they usually try to have a list at the front detailing their premises. In department stores also, when they have a floor of eating establishments, there is usually information explaining the different restaurants and their food.

My wife hates going to the department store restaurants because they invariable have only five or six choices which are the same in every department store. The usual suspects include soba, udon, tenpura, sushi, Italian, Chinese and a restaurant which seems to serve pizza and parfaits. We usually end up going to the pizza and parfait one, and getting a cornflake filled parfait. I think the cornflakes are meant to be a cheap replacement for more ice cream. I hate those cornflakes.

Car Park 2

空、　１０分　１００円
から、　じゅっぷん　ひゃくえん
Empty / vacancy, 100 Yen per 10 minutes.

Contrary to the last post, this kanji can be on its own, and is its own word. Parking is expensive in Tokyo.

Car Park

満（車）
まん（しゃ）
Full (parking lot)

They are using just the one character to show this car park to be full. However, you wouldn't see this kanji on its own usually, it's part of the word 満車 （まんしゃ）. So it's an abbreviation.

Height Limit

高さ制限２．０ｍ以下
たかさせいげんにメートルいか
Height limit 2.0 metres or less.

I saw this above someone's garage door.

Near a Fire Hydrant.

消防署の通達により、　ここに駐停車できません。　管理組合
しょうぼうしょのつうたつにより、　ここにちゅうていしゃできません。かんりくみあい
Notice from the fire department, you can't stop your car here. Management society (of the building).

I suspect bigger buildings have a kind of maintenance and management office, which is what is probably meant by the management society. The building's management.

Outside a Jonathon's Restaurant

２４時間営業、八王子旭町店
２４じかんえいぎょう、はちおうじあさひちょうてん
Open 24 hours. The 'Hachiouji-Asahi-chou Branch.

The bottom line is the building's address or name or something. It's hard to tell.

Edit: Tokyo Five to the rescue. Added the street address part.

Somewhere 9

合流
ごうりゅう
Convergence.(as in a combined sewer 「合流渠」)

I assume this was a sewer cover, I mean I didn't go down and check it out or anything.

In Kyoto 2

市バス
しバス
City bus

At Kyoto Museum

お手洗い
おてあらい
Toilet

A slightly less formal way to say toilet. This literally means 'hand washing'.

In Kyoto

旅館街
りょかんがい
Ryokan (Japanese-style hotel) street

Ryokans are tatami-matted Japanese hotels which usually serve a set meal in your room for breakfast and dinner. The meals are beautifully presented and consist of many dishes in the kaiseki manner.

Outside my Apartment

電気
でんき
Electricity

Near Roppongi Hills 7

横断禁止
おうだんきんし
No crossing

In case the unbroken waist high barriers which line every footpath and every street didn't give you a clue as to Japan's jaywalking policy.

Near Roppongi Hills 6

とまれ
Stop.

Noob, noob, why don't you give me a call?

Near Roppongi Hills 5

じてんしゃ
Bicycle.

This is dedicated to noobs everywhere.