Just a few pictures of the city at night from Tokyo Tower. If you happen to go on a Wednesday, there's usually live music playing. There's also a restaurant with eye-gouging prices, and a shrine. In fact, it is Tokyo's highest elevated shrine. Who would have thought?
To take the elevator up, it costs about $8. There's an even higher view point that costs and additional $6 to go up to. There are also glass parts in the deck's floor so you can look down at the parking lot and vomit. Inside the observation platform:
Looking out:
A particularly eye-searing view of Shinjuku:
Supposedly you can see Mt. Fuji on a clear day, but I have my doubts...
Right beside Tokyo Tower is a tiny park that I usually walk through to get to the tower. At night it's empty, and then you turn right and walk past a huge compound that looks like an old-style Japanese house. The fence around the compound is shrouded in bamboo and foliage and seeing in is pretty much impossible. Plus, when you walk past the front door, a man in a black hat stares at you until you leave his eyesight. And as you walk up the road, there are black cars with tinted windows waiting for... whomever.
Turns out it's a religious sect and I have been encouraged not to walk through the park anymore. However, I do find it amusing that I can pay $6 and go up to the platform and look down into their compound with a fairly good view...
Also, randomly, did you know that Spider Man sells real estate in Tokyo?
Just don't tell Batman, he'll get ticked.
To take the elevator up, it costs about $8. There's an even higher view point that costs and additional $6 to go up to. There are also glass parts in the deck's floor so you can look down at the parking lot and vomit. Inside the observation platform:
Looking out:
A particularly eye-searing view of Shinjuku:
Supposedly you can see Mt. Fuji on a clear day, but I have my doubts...
Right beside Tokyo Tower is a tiny park that I usually walk through to get to the tower. At night it's empty, and then you turn right and walk past a huge compound that looks like an old-style Japanese house. The fence around the compound is shrouded in bamboo and foliage and seeing in is pretty much impossible. Plus, when you walk past the front door, a man in a black hat stares at you until you leave his eyesight. And as you walk up the road, there are black cars with tinted windows waiting for... whomever.
Turns out it's a religious sect and I have been encouraged not to walk through the park anymore. However, I do find it amusing that I can pay $6 and go up to the platform and look down into their compound with a fairly good view...
Also, randomly, did you know that Spider Man sells real estate in Tokyo?
Just don't tell Batman, he'll get ticked.
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