A man in a coat stopped beside the escalator and stared at the information board

Man with a coat standing beside escalator — Escalators at Odakyu Southern Tower

The entrance hall of Odakyu Southern Tower was surrounded by silence. Although this building is located right next to Shinjuku Station, it is far away from the main flow of people. Although the building houses a hotel and restaurants, not many people enter through the entrance. Even the sun shining down through the large glass walls seems to be coming in unobtrusively. The elevator, with no one on it, had lost its motivation and stopped moving.

I leaned against the fence of the second floor corridor and watched the entrance hall from above. As I did so, a man in a stainless steel coat appeared in the entrance hall. The sound of the man's footsteps reaching me on the second floor reached me as he walked steadily through the quiet entrance hall. The man stopped in front of the directories by the escalator and began to take a closer look. In the dimly lit entrance hall, the way he looked at the directories with his coat on was somewhat like an assassin checking the whereabouts of his prey.

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