“Orange Girders” : Tokyo, 20th March 2012
Tokyo Tower, aged and outdated, but still iconic and wonderfully photogenic even at close quarters…
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PHOTO OF THE DAY #343
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged art, installation, Japan, landmark, metal, monument, sculpture, Shinjuku, Tokyo, tube on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Tokyo Metal” : 17th March 2012
This impressively modern installation resides just in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Shinjuku, although with a whole host of other abstract pieces of art. This is about as far from traditional Japan as you can get, architecturally speaking…
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PHOTO OF THE DAY #340
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged colourful, Japan, landmark, metal, neon, night, structure, Tokyo, Tokyo Tower on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Tokyo Tower” : 16th March 2012
After yesterday’s photo highlighting the brand new Sky Tower, here we have the old creaking Tokyo Tower.
Unusually for me, I took a tripod on my trip, a lightweight carbon-fibre one which I could easily carry on my back all day.
I really wanted to try to capture some better quality night images: I’m not sure that I succeeded (I think I still have quite a bit to learn here), but this particular effort seems to capture the more romantic side of the old tower, bedecked in an unusual lighting scheme (all-over orange is the norm).
The tower is always fun at night, thronged with people, and also I found it a very useful beacon for navigation as this time around in the capital I’d vowed to do it on foot, the only way to get a real feel of any city, I think…
You may have been surpassed in many ways by the Sky Tree, Tokyo Tower, but you still exude a ton of nostalgic charm after dark…
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PHOTO OF THE DAY #339
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged Japan, landmark, monolith, sky, Sky Tree, structure, Tokyo, tower on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Tokyo Sky Tree” : Tokyo, March 17th 2012
What you see here, caught in the evening just after sundown, is the tallest tower in the world – the 634m high Tokyo Sky Tree.
It looks pretty cool, but also evil somehow – and when I visited it wasn’t yet open to receive visitors.
This replaces an earlier icon, Tokyo Tower, which will feature in subsequent photos. Tokyo Tower is basically just a crappy copy of the Eiffel Tower dating from the 50′s, which although quite charming in many ways, is certainly looking a little worn.
Do we need an enormous tower in this most earthquake-prone of cities which is expected to be hit by The Big One any minute?
Well, maybe not, but at least they chose a rather run-down neighbourhood in which to build it and its attendant shopping centres and facilities, which are sure to revitalise the area.
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