Ok- you do get the plaque- it's a nice colour...

New York's subway opened in 1904 and Osaka's first line ran for the first time in 1933 and continues to extend tentacles beneath the city... see http://www.urbanrail.net/as/osak/osaka.htm

Above ground is an equally confused array of lines and cables, fibre optic communication, electricity, connections, wires to the rest of us...arranged in a frenzy of military-style construction. Like the purely functional railway stations, like the army rebuilding bombed bridges- what is most important is to have everything OPERATIONAL- and leave aesthetics to the dogs (or camera-carrying wanderers peering up into that clear autumn sky).