Sunday. Adventure day. Just where to in this time of illuminated parks and streets, Sunday crowds, cold winds and early sunsets. I stayed pretty close to home in the morning with some catch up work to do and so my planned trip to Kamakura is really just deferred for another day.
Instead, I hopped on the train to Shinjuku, to one of its parks, Shinjuku Gyoen, sort of expecting some kind of illumination (every other park seems to be doing it) only to find I reached it just minutes before closing time, well time enough for a 35 minute wander around in fading light.
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| Neighbourhood panther in the making |
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| Seeing baby panther off his patch |
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| Crow wondering |
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| still about |
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| Amassed |
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| And fallen |
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| Curves |
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| Deep reds |
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| Layered reds |
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| Crown of branches |
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| Turning reds |
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| Branching out to the sky |
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| Close-up |
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| Budding buddies |
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| Chillaxed branch |
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| Able to see tall buildings.. |
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| Gradations |
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| Another way to see tall buildings |
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| Shinjuku street lights |
And although there wasn't
Shinjuku was my first major station and pivot point when I first came to Japan all those years ago. It still has the sense of the familiar, though not what it used to be.
Unlike my main junction station these days, Ikebukuro where I came upon a few lights...
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| Yesterday's owl, illuminated |
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| Sumo karaoke champ |
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| Fountain, accidentally illuminated |
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| So many fairy lights |
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| Another owl |
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| Santa seeking reindeer |
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| Street decoration |
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| In another light |
...and a sumo karaoke competition. Nope, I don't know quite how or why either. I guess it just pays to get out and about sometimes.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm; 2.34pm-2.42pm, 3.56pm-4.34pm, 4.56pm-5.10pm; 18 December 2016]
