Tokyo encounters (4)

with the present...............

Efficiency - Communication is everything

Speed & punctuality - The Shinkansen ("Bullet train")

Practicality - Tokyo love hotel

July, Aug 2009 Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo encounters (3)

.....with the past




The Memorial Park, Hiroshima. The park was built in commemoration of the
first nuclear bomb ever used, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 by the USA in the final days of World War II.

Hiroshima being rebuilt. The pictures show the city in various stages over the decades.

Nowadays, the city makes a pleasant, peaceful, modern and, most of all, friendly and welcoming impression.

This monument shrine features a flame (left of the centre) that burns since it was erected, and will only be extinguished when all nuclear arms will have disappeared from Earth.

I'm afraid this might take a while.....

Tokyo encounters (2)

.........with nature










Saturday, July 25th 2009 Rikugien Garden, Tokyo





This garden is a typical "kai-yu" ("walk-around") style garden. The thirty and sixty minute walking courses will take you round the pond, up Mount Fujishiro which is a miniature mountain, past Garyuseki Rock which represents a dragon, and past Horai-jima island which is shaped like a turtle. The garden dates back to 1695; it took 7 years to build and throughout history it has been described in many Japanese "waka" (31 syllable) poems.
















Jeans meet kimono....




"......believe me, I'm going to be a sumo wrestler....."