Issue 54 of Daido Moriyama's own ongoing journal.

“Yesterday my daughter drove me and my wife to a town south of Yokohama. We had already been there two weeks earlier, and as I had no business accompanying the ladies on their shopping spree I spent a little over an hour walking around with my camera in the area around the station, crowded with people and tall buildings. Quite naturally the tour also led me to a place that I always visit and that I have decided to refer to as my oasis number three, on one side of a fifty-metre stretch of a narrow alley between the back of a store and the railway line. Back home I found myself alone in the kitchen at night and, while having another cigarette or two, I reviewed the results. 'I guess two or three of them will be alright,' I concluded while thinking about the next issue. I remembered also photographing a long line of people and wondered what they were queueing up for, while lighting another cigarette. Another day in the life drew casually to an end. Tomorrow, I thought, I'm going to take a stroll somewhere else. Oases number one and two are places that I carry in my heart, and I won't tell anyone about them unless they're heavy smokers just like me.” — from the afterword