Tokyo Blog

I’ve been indoors working a lot recently, so I decided I would take time out to visit another of the places on my list: the shopping and art complex, Tokyo Midtown. I’d already heard about the place before, so I kind of knew what to expect. The idea behind Tokyo Midtown seems to be sophisticated shopping with an emphasis on art and design. The art and design angle is represented throughout the site, but mainly by 21_21 Design Sight, and the Suntory Museum of Art. I visited 21_21 Design Sight which is an amazing building designed by architect Tadao Ando. I put some photos up to look at on flickr for Tokyo Midtown and just a few for 21_21 Design Sight (photography was not allowed in the building, and although I tried to shoot a few sneaky ones, they came out all blurred).

This is a photo of a new building in my neighbourhood, that some construction workers have been building. It’s taken them about a month to finish it. The whole thing. It’s awesome how fast they just built it. It looks pretty standard for Tokyo, as far as I can tell. I’m just glad they’ve finished it, they were making a load of noise on site, from about 6am onwards!