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todayintokyo · 9 months

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Hi there! Hope you’re well and not melting away in the humidity. I am super excited to be planning a trip to Japan again after almost four years away. Considering I lived 1) in Kansai-ish territory and 2) near Nagoya, I never got much chance to explore Tokyo outside of the usual tourist places. I already have Jinbocho on my list (along with one of the Aoyama flower market tea houses and Nakano Broadway)— do you have any suggestions for what’s fun in Tokyo for someone who is a little more experienced with the area?

Welcome back!

Now here's a challenge! I don’t know whether you're looking for new & trendy, or old & traditional, and a lot depends on the season, but…

1) Stroll from Ueno Park or Nezu to Yanaka and Sendagi. See if you can find Snake Street and follow its curves. Yanaka is as Kyoto as Tokyo gets. Yanaka and Kagurazaka.

2) Shibamata for more old Edo vibes. Cross the river on the ferry. Only ferry in Tokyo.

3) Sunamachi Ginza Shopping District in Koto-ku: another old area that's being transformed by gentrification.

4) Get lost in Shibuya Station, just for fun, but take tranquilizers with you. Walk from Shibuya via Shoto to Yoyogi Park. Shoto is one of the wealthiest areas in Tokyo, but it's not as famous as, say, Azabu-Juban or Denenchofu. Stop at Levain for bread and Fuglen for coffee.

5) Explore the swanky, hipsterish areas of Kichijōji, Shimokitazawa, Daikanyama. Take the Setagaya Tram Line from Sangenjaya to Gotokuji and visit the temple birthplace of the famous maneki-neko. Lots of tiny shops and quaint shopping streets in a relatively upmarket area along the way.

6) Okutama. Walk along the Mitake Valley Riverside Trail, from Ikusabata to Sawai, stop for sake at the Sawanoi Sake Brewery, visit the Gyokudo Museum. You can continue past Mitake to the Okutama Fishing Centre. If you are here in autumn, you'll see breathtaking autumn colours.

7) Yokohama! Not exactly Tokyo, but a nice day trip. Minato-Mirai, Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery (no, seriously, Google it), Sankeien Gardens.

I'm not a food expert, but there are really nice restaurants in all these areas. Add Yakitori Alley in Yurakucho to your list: great atmosphere. (There's a maze under the tracks between Yurakucho and Shimbashi. Well worth a visit, but it gets a bit dystopian.) Museums? Fukagawa Edo Museum in Kiyosumi, all the art museums in Ueno Park. Plants 'n stuff? Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome. Shinjuku Gyoen remains my favourite Tokyo park/garden.

It's very touristy, but so iconic that it's really worth it: New York Bar and Grill in the Park Hyatt Tokyo. Expensive though. Cocktail Works is a craft gin bar in Kanda (close to Jimbocho), and a very good alternative (but without the glorious view) (which is the whole point) (actually).

Oh, by the way, Piss Alley in Shinjuku? So yesterday. Try Sankaku Chitai in Sangenjaya or Nogecho in Yokohama instead. Shh, don't tell anyone.

Best free and still relatively uncrowded view of skyline: Bunkyo Civic Center observation lounge. Shh again.

Would this suffice? If you send more details about your timing and what you're interested in, I'll happily add more.

Enjoy the planning as much as the trip! 😊

#replies #this was fun #but I probably missed all the best bits

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junkissa · 27 days

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つるや (Tsuruya)

Saginomiya, Nakano-ku, Tokyo (October 18th, 2021)

#kissa #kissaten #retro kissa #junkissa #純喫茶 #喫茶店 #レトロ喫茶 #喫茶 #saginomiya #nakano #japan cafe #retro japan #old cafe #showa retro #cafe aesthetic #tea room #tea #omurice #coffee shop

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hirocimacruiser · 5 months

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A dream factory for cars.

Calsonic

We Try Next

All Japan GT Championship Series

Conquered for 4 consecutive years

Challenge romance.

The 4th year of the series begins with the start of the All Japan GT Championship race.

Calsonic has won the series for the past three years.

We have defeated all the challenges of strong competitors.

This season's goal is to achieve the extremely difficult 4th consecutive victory. We will attempt a feat that can be said to be unprecedented.

The machine is a Nissan Skyline. The driver duo is Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Masahiko Kageyama.

Please pay attention to the heat where the pride of the champion is at stake.

The race is a test field for training Calsonic's various products.

Of course, the heat exchange system of the champion machine is the same as that of the F-1 and many others.

Calsonic's aluminum system installed in racing machines.

We will prove the power and reliability of Calsonic's heat exchange system, which is installed in 30 million cars around the world, through a grueling race.

Calsonic Co., Ltd.

5-24-15 Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164 Phone: (03)5385-0111

#Calsonic R33 #Calsonic Skyline #R33 Skyline #R33 Skyline GTR #BCNR33 #JGTC #JGTC GTR

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minourakentaro · 8 months

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そ箕浦建太郎 Kentaro Minoura

2023 September 13 – October 7　 at : Studio 35minutes（ @studio35minutes ） Tokyo , 5–47–8 Kamitakada, Nakano-ku [Open] Wed – Sat: 16:00 – 22:00 *1drink order [Closed] Sun, Mon, Tue

会期：2023年9月13日（水）– 10月7日（土）会場：スタジオ 35分住所：東京都中野区上高田5–47–8 営業時間：水 – 土 16:00 – 22:00 *1ドリンクオーダー制定休日：日、月、火

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#箕浦建太郎 #KentaroMinoura #スタジオ35分 #Studio35minutes #新井薬師前 #Araiyakushimae

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duhragonball · 1 year

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Dragon Ball GT 61

✨GT Stands For Gobbling Things✨

Last time, Goku and Vegeta nearly defeated Omega Shenron, but their Fusion expired prematurely, and Omega was able to restore himself. The only net gain for the good guys was when Goku managed to intercept the Four-Star Dragon Ball before Omega could re-integrate it into his body. In order to ensure Omega doesn’t get his hands on it, he swallows it. It nearly chokes him to death, but his Super Saiyan 4 throat manages to power it down.

The problem now is that Omega is still too powerful for them to beat, even with only six Dragon Balls. This was why Vegeta called for Fusion in the first place, but it failed. So where to we go from here? What would you do in this situation?

(A) Have Goku and Vegeta soldier on without Fusion, eventually discovering some even better way to win?

(B) Introduce a new power-up to even the odds, like “Kaio-ken Super Saiyan 4″, or maybe they get a buff from the Tuffle Planet shining extra Blutz waves down on them, now that it’s visible in the sky?

(C) Spend a whole episode having them desperately trying to re-fuse into Gogeta, even though it didn’t work the first time and you’re supposed to wait an hour before trying to fuse again?

If you said (C), send your resume to:

Toei Animation Co. Ltd.

4-10-1 Nakano Nakano-Ku, 164-0001

Japan

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

So yeah, they spend this entire episode trying to re-fuse, because Gogeta’s Big Bang Kamehameha was the only attack that was even remotely effective against Omega Shenron.

Except... it wasn’t effective at all. It blew up Omega, knocking the Dragon Balls out of him, but it didn’t kill him. Everyone just assumes a second shot would have finished him, but I’m not convinced. Goku achieved the same result with that Super Dragon Fist he scored back in Episode 59. That... probably isn’t how it’s supposed to work. Gogeta’s attacks should be much, much more potent than Goku’s, but I’m just reporting the facts.

More to the point, why does everyone think that Gogeta 4 can even pull off two Big Bang Kamehamehas in a row? He came apart while he was preparing the second shot, so maybe he can only do one before he de-fuses. And one isn’t enough.

Also, everyone just takes it for granted that Gogeta won’t horse around like he did the first time around. Why? Vegeta blames Goku for what happened, but it’s not really clear that they can control Gogeta’s attitude. For all they know, a second try with Gogeta will turn out just like the first.

Let’s really pick this business apart, because I hated the way they just jumped straight from SSJ4 Vegeta to the fusion, and now we’re seeing the bitter fruits of that plan. Now that Gogeta has failed, and they’ve decided their only chance is to try him again, there’s really only two possible ways to go with this.

1) They successfully re-fuse, which makes Episodes 60 and 61 a waste of time. What was the point of the first round with Gogeta if they were just going to do it all over again?

2) They fail to re-fuse, which means they’ve blown a whole episode trying to repeat a trick that didn’t work the first time they tried it. And they’ve all but admitted that Goku and Vegeta are completely ineffective against Omega Shenron.

See, this is why you build up to things like Fusion. They could have done a whole episode of Vegeta showing his stuff against Omega, putting up a valiant fight while Dende heals Goku or something. Then they could double-team Omega, and then they could resort to Fusion.

But instead, Toei does this all ass-backwards. First the fusion, then the double-team, then Vegeta has to fight alone. It’s crap.

So yeah, the boys spend the entire episode trying to re-fuse. There’s literally nothing else they can do, so their strategy is as transparent as can be. On the other hand, Omega Sheron doesn’t want them to fuse again, so his strategy is equally transparent: He won’t let them fuse. We know this because he says so over and over again.

This whole episode is nothing but Goku and/or Vegeta shouting “We have to do fusion!” and Omega Shenron going “I told you, I won’t let you do that again!” It’s the pits. It sucks. It blows. It’s not a fun time.

The worst part of this is that there’s some mildly decent double-team fighting going on here, but it’s all for naught, because we’ve already established that Vegeta and Goku’s attacks are useless. All they can do is try to distract Omega and get out of his line of sight long enough to fuse, and they can’t do that either, because he knows what they’re up to.

Now you might be wondering, “Why don’t they just do what they did in Episode 60, the first time they fused?” Well, Trunks brings this up. Last time Gohan, Goten, and Trunks all jumped into keep Omega Shenron busy long enough for Goku and Vegeta to fuse. Well, according to Gohan in this episode, it wouldn’t work a second time. For one thing, they’ve lost the element of surprise. Also, it never really made sense the first time.

Gohan says that Omega can now read Goku and Vegeta’s movements, which is why they’re having so much trouble now. So if Gohan, Goten, and Trunks jumped in now, they’d be much worse off than they were before. Okay, but Omega has already clobbered these small fries a few times already. Sometimes they’ll jump in to attack Omega, and sometimes Omega will just lash out at them unprovoked. And they always manage to keep him busy, but he never seems to do any lasting damage to them.

And that’s GT Logic for you. Sometimes Gohan and the others jumping in is a good idea, and sometimes it’s a bad idea, and there’s not rhyme or reason to any of it. It’s purely a matter of whether the writers want them to jump in during this particular episode.

✨Positivity Page✨

So how do we break this standoff? Well, Goku gets the bright idea to use the Afterimage Technique to create their own diversion. This way, they can fuse right in front of Omega and he won’t be able to tell the real Goku and Vegeta from the illusions they created.

And I’ll give this episode some credit, it’s a cool trick. It kind of flies in the face of what Gohan said about Omega being able to read their movements. Seems like if Omega’s figured out Goku and Vegeta that well by now, he ought to see through their Afterimage bit. But I still haven’t been able to figure out if the Shadow Dragons can sense ki, or what they mean when they say they’ve “heard” things about Goku. Like, they know who Goku is, and they say they’ve heard about Super Saiyan 4, and his extreme gullibility, but they don’t know about Fusion, or the Afterimage Technique. Maybe they should have read that book Emperor Pilaf found that told him about the Black Star Dragon Balls. It probably has all kinds of information on Goku’s powers.

So we’re back in business, right? Gogeta returns? Nope, because even though Goku and Vegeta pull of the Fusion Dance, nothing happens. No one knows what went wrong, but Trunks begins to suspect it’s because Goku’s starting to weaken from this long battle. Remember, it’s not enough to do the poses right during the Fusion Dance. You also have to precisely match your power level with your partner’s. Maybe Goku can’t do that anymore.

And I guess Omega Shenron guesses the same thing, because he dares Goku and Vegeta to try it again, and when they do, Goku powers down to base mode. So now they’re double-fucked, because you have the mismatched ki problem, but you also have the size difference problem.

And this sort of brings the series back full circle, because this wouldn’t have been an issue if Goku hadn’t been turned into a child back in Episode 1. Even worn down like he is, he could have still fused with Vegeta. All Vegeta would have to do is power down to his base mode, match his energy level to Goku’s, and they could fuse. Then Gogeta could have turned Super Saiyan 4 afterward.

But Goku’s child body has ruined everything, which seems kind of fitting, since everyone basically stopped worrying about it after Episode 40, and that always bothered me, because the opening credits and the first several episodes really seemed to present this as a major problem that needed to be solved. But instead of addressing it, Toei just kept eliminating possible solutions, until everyone sort of dropped it. Hell, even Goku seemed unconcerned with his appearance. Well, it kind of matters now, doesn’t it?

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

Yes, this episode is worse than “The Roaming Lake”. It’s not just that it’s a crappier episode, although it certainly is that. No, what really irritates me about this one is how it follows the same shitty plot structure as “The Roaming Lake” and somehow makes it even dumber.

Real quick, let’s recap “The Roaming Lake.” Okay, so the characters all talk amongst themselves for like eight minutes, then Goku heads out, only to run into Nam, who’s investigating the cause of his village’s river drying up. They track it back to Giran’s village, where they’ve got this huge, indestructible dam blocking the flow of the water. Giran says he couldn’t open the dam if he wanted to, but he agrees to let Goku try. So Goku blows up the dam with a Kamehameha and restores the river.... until a freak sandstorm buries it. Fortunately, the Roaming Lake appears, providing fresh water for Nam’s village.

Okay, so let’s look at GT 61. Goku and Vegeta bicker over their failed fusion and insist on trying again. Just like Nam traveling upstream, they’re basically locked into a single course of action, which limits their available options. Finally, Omega Shenron agrees to let them try Fusion... and it doesn’t work. Fortunately, the Four Star Dragon Ball appears on Goku’s forehead, providing absolutely nothing.

For all of “The Roaming Lake’s” problems, it at least provides a proper payoff to the premise. Nam discusses the dry riverbed problem and the Roaming Lake legend at the start of the story. By the end of the story, the river mystery has been resolved, and the Roaming Lake legend comes true. It’s stupid, but it’s somewhat satisfying.

GT 61 presents Fusion as the solution to everyone’s problems, except that they already tried it and it didn’t work. By the end of the story, Fusion is completely ruled out as an option, and then this stupid Dragon Ball appears on Goku’s head, which is treated like a plot twist, except it doesn’t mean anything because there was no setup for it.

Watching Goku and Vegeta desperately try to fuse, I’m reminded of Episode 94 of DBZ, where Goku is desperately gathering energy for the Spirit Bomb, and Piccolo, Gohan, and Krillin are trying to keep Frieza occupied long enough for Goku to finish the attack, and there’s all this suspense and it just keeps building and building. The reason that episode is so effective is because no matter what happened with the Spirit Bomb, the audience could look forward to seeing it used against Frieza. Even though he survived the attack in the next episode, it still ruled because it was this gigantic offensive and even Frieza thought it would kill him.

GT 61 tries to recapture that same feeling, but it doesn’t work because we already saw a successful Fusion in the previous episode. We already know what will happen if they pull it off, because we just saw it and it didn’t work and they made us feel like idiots for wanting it in the first place. The best case scenario for this premise is that we get Gogeta back, and that means a do-over of Episode 60. The worst-case scenario is that they spend a whole episode trying to get Gogeta back, and they end up with nothing to show for it. And Toei looked a both options and went with the worst-case scenario. Dragon Ball GT, everyone. Let’s hear it for them.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Old Kai ignoring

this whole dumb episode. Gosh,

I wish that were me.

#dragon ball #dragon ball gt #really sucks #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #*haiku does not come with crown as illustrated #goku #vegeta #trunks #gohan #omega shenron #elder supreme kai

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putah-creek · 8 months

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'The Wood Between' (2008) by Hiramatsu Reiji (平松礼二), a contemporary Nihonga (Japanese style) painter who was born in Nakano-ku, Tokyo in 1941); his real name is Hiramatsu Kunio (平松邦夫).

#japanese art #artwork #art

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htca1 · 1 year

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WHITE U HOUSE

→ Ubicación: la casa White U se sitúa.

→ Ciudad: Nakano-Ku, Tokio.

→ País: Japón

→ Arquitecto encargado de la obra: Toyo Ito

→ Fecha de construcción: entre 1975 y 1976. Fué demolida en 1995 .

Biografía del arquitecto

Toyo Ito nació el 1 de junio de 1941 en Seúl, Corea. A sus 12 años se trasladó a Japón por cuestiones de trabajo de su padre y desde entonces la familia regentó una factoría de sopa. Hasta que Toyo no inicia sus estudios universitarios no se interesa por la arquitectura. Se gradúa en la Universidad Nacional de Tokyo (Japón). Trabajó durante 4 años en las oficinas de Kiyonori Kikutake Arquitectos. En 1971 abre su propia oficina Urbot en Tokyo. En 1979, inicia un periodo de expansión internacional. Sus primeros proyectos, como la Casa de Aluminio fueron estructuras de maderas recubiertas de ese metal. El edificio tratado en este trabajo es el que lo lleva a la fama, la Casa white U. Su arquitectura excepcional mantiene edificios atemporales, con los que audazmente propone nuevos caminos en proyectos diferentes como bibliotecas, casas, parques, teatros, tiendas, edificios de oficinas y pabellones, siempre tratando de ampliar las posibilidades de la arquitectura.

Entre sus numerosos premios, el que más destaca es el que consiguió el 17 de marzo de 2013, donde fue galardonado con el Premio Pritzker, que está considerado la distinción más importante en el mundo de la arquitectura. Se convirtió en el sexto japonés que obtiene este reconocimiento.

Descripción de la obra y su contexto cultural

La casa White U fue encargada por la hermana mayor del arquitecto Toyo Ito, justo después de la muerte del marido de la hermana, debido al cáncer. Este proyecto se llevó a cabo en el terreno al lado de la casa de Toyo Ito, ya que estaba en venta. La hermana del arquitecto quería una casa de cota baja para sentirse más cerca del terreno y las plantas, además de que la casa tuviese forma de ‘L’ para que los miembros de la familia estuviesen en contacto visual todo el tiempo. A medida que la idea de proyecto fue avanzando, Toyo Ito acabó dándole una forma de ‘U’ a la casa para crear un vínculo más fuerte entre las habitantes de la casa y separarlas del exterior, además de brindarle un espacio de mayor valor simbólico para el luto. Después de veintiún años, las hijas y la madre se mudaron a otros sitios y la casa White U fue demolida como símbolo de que su luto había finalizado.

La casa fue construida en su mayor parte por hormigón armado. El espacio se distribuía a lo largo de una pasillo curvo que terminaba en un extremo con la habitación de las hijas y de la madre, y en el otro extremo con la cocina y el baño. Estos dos extremos estaban unidos por un pasillo recto, el cual era la zona de estudio o meditación. Los espacios no fueron delimitados por paredes, a excepción de los dormitorios y el baño, debido a que la forma de la casa ya distribuía los espacios. La entrada de luz principal proviene del patio interior, aunque los corredores son espacios oscuros; todas las superficies de la casa son blancas, lo cual aumenta la iluminación de la casa y crea un espacio minimalista, ideal para la meditación.

Bibliografía

→Toyo Ito White U House in Tokyo, Japan. (2019, December 16). ArchEyes. https://archeyes.com/white-house-u-toyo-ito/

→Clásicos de Arquitectura: White U / Toyo Ito. (2014, January 16). ArchDaily México. https://www.archdaily.mx/mx/02-327187/clasicos-de-arquitectura-white-u-toyo-ito→Ezquerra, V. (2020, January 16). Toyo Ito-Arquitecto Japonés de Vanguardia. Vanesa Ezquerra Arquitecto Passivhaus. https://www.vanesaezquerra.com/toyo-ito-arquitecto-japones-de-vanguardia/

#S09 #TOYO ITO #PCR #ACB

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