Buildings in Tokyo


Some photos of the newest and oldest buildings in Tokyo (Please click Read More)

Masayo and I visited Tokyo last weekend. I took some photos of the buildings we visited; they are either very new or very old. I think this is a metaphor of the characteristic of the city.




'Hills Tower' of Roppongi Hills
Roppongi Hills consist of the above tower, some apartments, TV station and some smaller residential buildings. It is a very modern area where you live, you eat out and you shop regardless the cost.




An 19th century building covered with ivy in Ueno.
Ueno is famous with a huge public park (where many homeless people used to camp but they no longer exists), and the park has many nice looking old buildings like the above.




A building of ancient music school of Japan: Ueno.
I don't think the building is still used for teaching, but it seemed this is now a shrine of music teachers here.




Tokyo International Forum: an international convention centre




Another view of Tokyo International Forum, Yurakucho.

By the way, the top photo is nothing to do with this entry. It is a photo of handmade paper monkeys which we sold some weeks ago. Next year is the year of monkey in Japanese traditional calendar, and we promoted these monkey paper crafts by saying that the evil sprits are afraid of the faces of monkey.

Posted: (金) - 11 7, 2003 at 10:51 PM          

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