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The Takanawa area in Minato-ku is a great place for a walk to see old style buildings and temples. The area lies between Meguro/Gotanda and Shinagawa and has a rich history intertwined with the Tokaido Road. I took this walk at New [...]
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The Yamate Tunnel is due to open at the end of March 2010, helping to provide a second circular road for highway traffic in Tokyo. This section of the road includes a very interesting tunnel and ramp known as Ohashi Junction. Today was [...]
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It was a great sunny day on “Sunday” with blue skies in Tokyo and I decided to take a walk from Shinagawa Station towards Tennozu Isle (where the monorail runs to Haneda Airport). Feel free to use the “comments on top [...]
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After being delayed by the Yamanote Line stopping last week, after the Shibuya Streets photo shoot, I decided to catch the train to Osaki and then walk to my destination of Shinagawa. The walk was mainly through Gotenyama, which you [...]
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I went for a short walk on Christmas Day to Odaiba. It was pretty busy and I didn’t take the camera out much, but here are a few snaps I took along the way.
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I took a walk up to Meiji Jingu on the weekend. As always, there were lots of other people around and cameras snapping everywhere, but the walk through the grounds is so quiet and peaceful you hardly notice. I didn’t take many [...]
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Ginza on a Sunday is one of the few places left to experience Hokousha-tengoku (歩行者天国), literally meaning ‘pedestrians paradise’, on a major Tokyo street area. There used to be a very popular one at Harajuku until some [...]
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Continuing the “Street Walk” series following the building construction photos, I photographed a number of street signs that are quite common in Tokyo. They have a uniquely Japanese feeling to them. When you walk past them [...]
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I took a walk up koen-dori today and took these pictures while I was out. Walking further up Koen-dori I went past the usual suspects of stores: and then had a look back down the street from half-way: took in some of the lesser known [...]