Month: November 2008

One of the best things I like about Tokyo is that, even though it is one of the most populated cities in the world, if you walk away five minutes from any train station you can find places that metaphorically transport you outside of Tokyo. Sometimes I have the feeling I’m not in Tokyo but in a little village lost in the mountains.

This picture was taken three minutes walking from this other picture last Sunday. There is a kid playing with his Nintendo DS in a park.

And if you look at the top-right corner there is an old woman taking care of the park’s garden.

I walked towards the old woman, and yes! she was “guerrilla gardening”.

I walked by again four hours later and she was still there. But the kid was not.

Name of the post inspired by Tokyo Times “Tranquil time” series.

From today until the end of the year I’m going to publish some posts with the title “Tokyo pictures 2008”. In each post I will concentrate in different subjects, in this first article the subtitle is “People”. At the end I will put together the best pictures from each post considering your opinions reading the comments from each post. The idea of this series is to capture Tokyo’s 2008 zeitgeist. I used a Nikon D90, a Nikon D40 and a Canon IXY Digital 910 IS to take these pictures.