| | |
Not prominently featured in the mainstream tourism brochures, the Bunkyo Civic Center has a free observation deck on the top floor.
|
West
On this exceptionally clear day, even Mount Fuji was visible behind Shinjuku's skyscrapers. Impressive!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tokyo is not really a land of skyscrapers, which is quite ironic given 30 million live around Tokyo Bay.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Although the designs and shapes look very disorderly, these individual buildings generally share a common height. In Tokyo, there is always order within chaos.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
East
Although the Civic Center was not particularly tall, it was enough to get a commanding view of the brand new Tokyo Sky Tree.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The flame building is not particularly tall, but given the city around it isn't tall either, it was clearly visible even from here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marunouchi lies in the distance further southeast.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately, the south side is blocked off and not open to the public, so all I could do is to take southeasterly photos from this window, and southwesterlies on the other side.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Across Tokyo, I observed many tourist spots had these stamps for visitors to mark a memory of their visit on paper.
|