Maybe it should read - 'Watch out for THIS pole'

No sign would have been best, neither on the pole nor anywhere near it. On the pole is just going to make you more irate when reading it after smacking your head against it, and near the pole is likely to distract you from the pole, thus increasing your chances of smacking your head against it.

Then again, you could just get rid of the pole. But if they did, the whole station would probably implode. The Oedo Line is about 44 floors underground and all that.

The pole ey?

There's a place in Yokohama which is called The Pole where foreigners meet and drink. It's outside and near the station. It used to be near an actual pole but since moved to another area nearer the conbeenie.
When on coming Japanese see the foreigners they divert their path.
Maybe a group of foreigners should conglomerate near this pole and drink and act drunkedly. It would do a better safety job than that sign.

"The Pole" in Yokohama. "Station beers" in Shimbashi. "The Bridge" in Ochanomizu.

Someone should publish a book of cheap outdoor drinking haunts in the Tokyo area.

I reckon they should pad that pole and then cover it in neon advertising. And stick a speaker to it playing a dinky little song. Du-du, du-du, du-du...

There's a We Road in Ikebukuro. I think it sounds a little Scottish, don't you think?

That could go into the book as a place to go after the outdoor drinking I suppose.

"Shinkoiwa train platform"; "Small paved seating area inbetween Ichikawa Berlitz and JR Ichikwawa"

I like the neon sign and music idea. It sounds more suited to Japan. People don't seem to pay much attention to signs. At Yokohama station there are huge no smoking signs but right underneath them are huge piles of cigarette butts. Maybe if they played an embarressing tune there then no one would smoke.

I remember waking up once at Shinkoiwa station after going to The Pole in Yokohama.

The last/first train vortex once took me from Roppongi to Nikko. From the squalor of Roppongi to snow-capped mountains, all unintended.

Of course it's not intended. I remember once leaving Yokohama on the first train. I only have two stops. But I woke up at your house Setsunai in Tokyo!

This is becoming a common theme. I once met with Tom in the afternoon for a quiet drink and game of pool. The ending of these activities would then coincide with my jetlag kicking in so the natural course would have been to go home and rest. The next thing I knew I was bowling with Bobe somewhere near Yokohama at 10 in the morning.

Wormholes everywhere.

Yes Tom , I have a vague recollection of going out for a quiet meal with your good self and Donna in Rome at 7pm one lovely evening and returning to our hotel via several bars and subways at about 12pm the next day! Actually I think theres a photo somewhere.............

Italian wormholes...

Has anyone ever noticed that the day after these international wormholes appear only Tom seems to have the day off....

Convenient ey?

Slander...

I have seen those pictures Mick. That story was told to me by Donna and Tom many times.

And it all started with a pole...........