Let’s talk about manhole covers. Every city in the ... But all you have to do is travel to Japan to understand their potential to be works of art instead. [Photo: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images ...

In Poland, manhole covers are dull ... The covers of manholes, which the Japanese have turned into a unique form of street art. Walking with your eyes fixed on the pavement is probably more ...

Kyoto, the Japanese city often referred to as the country’s cultural capital, is renowned for its historic temples, its unique gardens—and its manhole covers. Unlike most sewage covers across ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is among 12 active Japanese MLB players that will be celebrated with custom manhole covers ...

Major League Baseball will celebrate the league’s 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes that will feature one player in each design, to be installed at locations associated with that ...

These are not the Gettys, Guggenheims or Nahmads of great art. But they are all points ... is where on this spectrum to place Japan and its iron manhole covers. Many Japanese are from a young ...

Today, manhole covers are a “region-specific” art form that attract their own aficionados, according to Web Japan. Some covers depict popular Japanese icons like Hello Kitty, Astro Boy and ...

Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo leans into a trendy artistic canvas in Japan to trace the players’ journeys to the global stage.

A manhole cover featuring a Hello Kitty design is installed in Japan. City staff realized that the mundane, utilitarian covers for street manholes could be small works of art with a little ...

For ¥5,500 (£31), fans can purchase their own 90kg piece of Japanese street furniture. A construction ministry employee came up with the idea of decorative manhole covers in the late 1970s.

Major League Baseball has announced that special manhole covers featuring Japanese players currently active in the professional league will be installed in their hometowns, starting next Monday.