Tokyo is famous for its highly developed urban landscape of modern office and apartment high rises, elevated freeways and shopping districts. It does have all of these things, but it is also a city of parks and museums, a number of which I discovered on a recent visit. Photos below:
Men pruning tree in Rikugien Gardens
Tsutsuji chaya (teahouse) in Rikugien Gardens
Chrysanthemum display at Rikugien Gardens
Gyoen Park, Shinjuku
Yokohama Waterfront Park
Ueno Park Map
Lotus plants in Shinobazu Pond, next to Ueno Park
Shitamachi Museum, next to Ueno Park (a museum about ‘ordinary life’ between 1867 and 1925)
Toyokan Asian Museum in Ueno Park, part of the Tokyo National Museum complex
‘Woman, with pigment’ (Chinese pottery figure from 2nd century BCE) in Toyokan Asian Museum
Carp – 1940 Japanese painting in Tokyo Fuji Art Museum at Hachioji in north-west Tokyo
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