There are images that I consider to be quintessentially Japanese, these three images, taken within a couple of minutes of each other in the unfashionable part of Shinjuku represent that image
There is everything that could only possibily be all together in Japan, from the 7-elevent to the kanji writing on the ground, to the way the people are dressed to the tiny cars and the modern architecture in the background to the spirt of the people to the well dressed people on bikes.
And yeah I get that all of these things exist elsewhere, I mean we can but the clothes a Muji, plenty of cities are full of bikes, there is something like 85,000 7-elevens in the world, but here, here is the only place where all of this seems to live together