Travel

  • Koishikawa Korakuen: Tokyo

    Koishikawa Korakuen is a formal garden in Tokyo. The Mito family of the Tokugawa clan built it in the early 1600s. Today, high-rise buildings surround it close by. And to one side is the white dome of the Tokyo Indoor Baseball Stadium rising like the top of a flying saucer over the garden. The visitors…

  • Meiji Jingu Shrine In Tokyo

    Meiji Jingu Shinto shrine is in Tokyo. It memorialises the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shoken. Erected in 1920, and destroyed in the firebombing in World War II. And built again after the war. This Torii (Shinto gate) dominates the entrance to Meiji . You have to look at the people to…