High-tech Koban

Japan is littered with little police boxes or koban like this one. Typically they are staffed by one or two police officers who give directions, yell at kids and stare at posters of all the sarin gas bombers that they still haven’t caught.

This koban is located across the street from the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroo. I rarely see a policeman in there, even during the day. It does, however, have a haiteku koban (High Tech Koban) computer kiosk inside. Maybe the friendly neighborhood beat cop has been replaced by a machine?