The other night I was going through a box of old things and found some postcards I purchased in the 1980s while in Japan. One was a picture of Shinjuku. I showed it to my son (who looked at the Shinjuku skyline on a daily basis for the past year) and asked him where the picture was taken. He had no idea. The place has changed that much. In the postcard there are about a half dozen skyscrapers. In the picture I took above (from Shinagawa) in 2009 there are over 50 buildings that are more than 20 stories high, most can’t even be seen because they are being blocked by other, taller buildings.

Posted on October 7th, 2010 under Japan • Tags: buildings, shinjuku, Tokyo. • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed