Tokyo
-Imperial Palace
(-part 2)

 

A rather weird "garden", considering how the flowers/plants are "presented": some in the grass, normal, but also some horizontally or vertically, which is less usual/normal! Allowed me to take nice photos anyway!

View from the other side of the weird garden...
(...thanks to the slightly yellow bushes on the left, the original photo looks really good!)

 

Several kinds of green, I always loved it, you probably begin to know it!!




"Large" view of the "weird garden"...

 




Aaaaah my two lovers! The image itself was nice, so when I saw that I could also have two these two sweetiese on my picture, who couldn't stop their love/shyness/big smile games, I couldn't resist! Right when I took the photo Ms. Lover saw me, but it's fine I had time to take my photo! And all this red around, it feels like a "love color", doesn't it?
(they were really cute!)

So, if I remember well, this building is/was a concert-hall, built by an Emperor for his wife, big love and the likes; each "face" represents something special/different, but I forgot about the details... and I don't like such a "mastoc" style, but I did like the clear colors, and this form gives a little softnees in the middle of all of these straight angles!

 

As the sign says: going further is forbidden. Because after the border in the front... well it's a big hole, the ground being at the level of the ground down the door in the background, so it's just a little dangerous, very little... but it gives a very nice view!

 

 

View... when you turn back from the previous view, somehow, once again liked the "contrast" between the really old walls, large probably recent parc, and most modern buildings in the back.

 

 

 

Another "samurai house", up the previous one on the way to teh Palace, meaning samurais with a higher grade lived there... in a really nice panorama!

 

 

 


In the end, it's another really nice parc... and really big! I had time to see only about half of it... but I will go back there one day, believe! There are -a lot- of different plants/flowers, too bad I don't know enough in that area to have appreciated all the details there, but it was really nice for the eyes... and it is said to be the place in Japan where you can see the largest number of different plants. Weird animals/flying-things also live there: I was sitting on a "seat" when a giant hornet came flying around me, with that so pleasant noise that is the characteristic of these so pleasant little things... as I don't like "fighting" in these situations I forced myself to stop moving, shaked a lot everytime it came really close because I was contracting myself a lot, and after 2-3mns it finally left... phew, relief! never saw such a big hornet, bleh! really scared me, damn animal
When you enter the parc, you very quickly walk by the "imperial family museum" (or such, forgot the real official name), with a few objects from their private collection exposed: there are very few, but I believe I understood they're changed very regularly, once or twice a month I believe... which I couldn't check of course, as I stayed only one week in Tokyo! And in a conservation state, mama mia! Here you see that museums are one one thing, but private collections are a totally other thing! As I love (/do some) embroidery I spent a lot of time detailing the 2-3 costumes that were exposed then I could have bought the big book that detailed pieces of the collection (generally, not only the about 15 exposed items), but as I knew that the parc was going to close soon I prefered going to the parc rather quickly than reading through this book (to check if it was interesting or not) and seeing only 10% of the parc! And even when I didn't do that I barely saw half of the parc... so I really made the good decision in the end!
Rumour says that going up to the parc itself is rather difficult... well I admit it goes... "/" (= you go up, for good!), but not for too long + you may have a break once or twice and enjoy the view around (= you don't only walk through endless and uninteresting walls): I know the street where I live is a little like that, so you may say I regularly train, but really I think it's ok. So should ever hesitate going to that parc because of that "going up there is difficult", don't worry: a lot of other humans beings regularly do it, so there's no reason why you couldn't do it
(Also note that whereas "the usual policeman" in Tokyo is really kind, the one guarding the Imperial Palace (inside or outside) is anything but convivial! Maybe because they're far older, while those in thes street are often very young: they don't have so many years of bullying/upseting hierarchy behind them!)

 

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