Osaka public transportation network is a city within the city. Better, it’s a galaxy of multiple suns-stations and planets-substations with their own trajectory, gravitational mass and atmosphere, connected by endless stairs, and with signing not really foreign-friendly.
I spent hours moving through its metro with my Leica M11 Monochrom and an 18mm superwide lens — perfect for the geometry of platforms, tunnels, staircases and people briefly sharing the same frame.


And I got lost. More than once.
Osaka’s transportation network is claimed to be extraordinarily efficient, but between Metro lines, JR trains, private railways, underground passages and stations that sometimes feel like small mazes themselves, efficiency doesn’t necessarily mean simplicity.
Sometimes I followed the wrong colour. Sometimes the right line in the wrong direction. Sometimes I simply stopped trying to understand and followed the flow.
In black and white, the underground became simpler: light, shadow, lines, faces and movement.
Perhaps getting a little confused was part of seeing it.
Osaka, 20/09/2026, Leica M11 Monochrom
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