Two of the biggest green spaces in Tokyo sit between the two busiest stations. A street, then a forest, then a garden.
Both stations sit beside a green space large enough to lose the city in.
09:00 the Shibuya crossing, and the dog who waited · 10:00 Meiji Jingu — a forest of a hundred thousand planted trees · 12:00 Omotesando on foot · 14:00 Shinjuku Gyoen, 58 hectares · 16:30 the free window 202 metres up at the city hall · 18:00 dinner in a six-seat eating house
The crossing everyone knows, and the statue of Hachiko beside it. Twenty minutes north is a forest that volunteers planted by hand.
Best in the rain, seen from above.
The dog waited nine years at this station.
A hundred thousand trees, donated and planted by hand from 1920.
Shibuya Sky is an open roof at 229 metres. An hour before sunset gives you the day, the blue hour and the night from one place.
A one-kilometre avenue of zelkova trees, and a row of buildings by named architects. It runs from the shrine down to Shibuya, so the walk joins the two.
Fifty-eight hectares, ten minutes from the busiest station in the world. Three gardens in one: an English lawn, a French avenue, and a Japanese pond garden.
Towers on three sides, grass in the middle.
202 metres up at the city hall, and it costs nothing. Fuji on clear winter days.
Grilled skewers in lanes beside the station.
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