Former Yasuda Garden Park

Sunday A"ernoon
Hopelessly tragic and utterly doomed megalopolis of seemingly gravity defying high rises and super malls,where permanence and ephemeral styles of architecture are smashed in together, and somehow rendering the city naturally orderly and chaotic. Welcome to Tokyo.

But amidst all of this noise and order the continuity of tradition still manages to thrive at the heart of this sleepless mega city.

It goes without saying that Tokyo is a forever changing city. It was destroyed twice, like so many of its temples and shrines, and rebuilt to reect the Time and era. Its a feeling that city planners and Japanese architects get when they put pen to paper when thinking up ways in which to create the most advanced city in the world. And then having to remember that tradition is their foundation for everything they set out to do. Ephemerality is the identity of Tokyo. Flow and transparency. Impermanence And its forever evolving......even after I pen my next entry. Its living.

Yasuda Gardens Sit Down

Its a place where you can sit down and snap endless pictures. It is a park so well thought out that not even the noise from outside its walls seep in through the bamboo.

A wild life sanctuary, too. We even saw a Fisher King! In the middle of Tokyo? We were in the heart of Sumida Ward in northeastern Tokyo. Tokyooooo.

 Types
There are two types of Japanese gardens. These are "Tsukiyama" and "Karesansui". Tsukiyama, small hills and stones represent mountains and the pond represents the sea. In "Karesansui" white sand symbolizes the sea, and the stones represent hills, which often times can be seen in Kyoto.

In Tokyo, half of the land is urbanized, including commercial and residential districts, while natural areas and greenery have shrunk signicantly.

Sumida River

River
The park was handed over to the city by a wealthy zaitabtsu as place of respite. Local residence enjoy walking around it and often times drawing or taking pictures of the landscape, especially of its biodiversity. A simple and small, yet remarkable gem in the heart of Tokyo.

The contrast between the park and Sumida river is extreme in my opinion. Completely dierent scenery. But again, that shows the dynamic of Tokyos urban planning. In the end, it all works very well together. I walked to Akihabara from this park, the largest electronics district in the world.