The other side of the tracks
Skyscrapers across the tracks from the Shinagawa Prince Hotel (品川プリンスホテル) with a shinkansen pulling into Shinagawa Station
When Ryan came back from his school field trip to Cambodia, his bus from the airport dropped everyone off at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. I went a bit early to welcome him back, even though the skies weren’t very interesting, to see what the views would be like from the top of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel’s 39 floors.
A bullet train is about to enter the Shinagawa Station in today’s photo. You can also see the buildings for the headquarters of Canon MJ (customer service I think) and Mitsubishi Construction. Tokyo Bay is in the distance (although easily reachable on foot from here).
October 18th, 2011 at 9:53 am
When I was doing an internship with the Takenaka Corporation back in the summer of ’93, one of the projects I worked on was the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. My group did all of the procurement for all of the overseas-sourced building materials. I even got to visit the job site while it was under construction, and I got to peek over the edge for a similar view before there were walls or windows in place. Guess we bought the right stuff; the building hasn’t fallen over yet. Thanks for reminding me of that.