Reminds me of wandering around Tokyo in the early 2000s. You’d get off a train somewhere and with no fanfare or warning find this incredible looking architecture that no one had even written about English.
we travelled around japan, tokyo included, earlier this year and this was one of the things we loved doing. you just walk everywhere and you'll find really interesting architecture in family houses, made of concrete.
Sounds good - I found it spoils to fun to read too much about a destination (or worse: to streetview it) I am going to for vacation. It takes away the joy of discovery and surprise.