{"id":3016,"date":"2009-09-22T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2009-09-08T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:01:24","slug":"shinjuku-from-below-and-above-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/shinjuku-from-below-and-above-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinjuku from below and above &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000259trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000259trim-464x800.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Tocho shinjuku japan\" title=\"Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Tocho shinjuku japan\" width=\"464\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000259trim-464x800.jpg 464w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000259trim-145x250.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took a walk the other day through Shinjuku&#8217;s Chuo Koen (\u65b0\u5bbf\u4e2d\u592e\u516c\u5712). The park provides quite a contrast to the high-rise buildings that surround it. \u65b0\u5bbf\u4e2d\u592e\u516c\u5712 features a rather wide, two-sided waterfall. The side you can see above is almost 10 feet high and more than a hundred feet wide. The other side is at least twice as high. <\/p>\n<p>The building in the background is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office (\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u5e81\u820e or just \u90fd\u5e81). Like many of the buildings in Shinjuku, it didn&#8217;t exist when I last lived in Tokyo in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>If you look very closely at the above photograph you&#8217;ll see turtles in the water beneath the waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000257trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000257trim-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"japanese turtles\" title=\"japanese turtles\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000257trim-800x494.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000257trim-250x154.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000257trim.jpg 1398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a closeup of those same turtles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000333trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000333trim-800x697.jpg\" alt=\"shinjuku chuo koen park tokyo japan\" title=\"shinjuku chuo koen park tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"697\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000333trim-800x697.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000333trim-250x218.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000333trim.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next evening I found myself on the observation deck of the \u90fd\u5e81 with a view of the spot in \u65b0\u5bbf\u4e2d\u592e\u516c\u5712 from which I had taken the top picture. From this vantage point you can see the other side of the waterfall. The turtles are probably still there, but you can&#8217;t quite see them in this final photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a walk the other day through Shinjuku&#8217;s Chuo Koen (\u65b0\u5bbf\u4e2d\u592e\u516c\u5712). The park provides quite a contrast to the high-rise buildings that surround it. \u65b0\u5bbf\u4e2d\u592e\u516c\u5712 features a rather wide, two-sided waterfall. The side you can see above is almost 10 feet high and more than a hundred feet wide. The other side is at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[175,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}