Shinjuku(
新宿区) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre. Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world with more than 2 million people passing through a day. Here resides also the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the Tokyo Metropolis. The area around Shinjuku Station is home to a large concentration of department stores, specialist electronic and camera shops, cinemas, restaurants and bars. Many international hotels have a large presence here.
Shinjuku shopping district.
Pachinko machine.
Fresh Sushi in Isetan Department Store.
A little pice of octopus limb.
Fresh fish.
Equestrian training in the middle of Tokyo Business District.
A small temple in front of Tokyo Government buildings.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices Building. TMG for short.
View from The TMG building observatory. Elevation 202 meters. The building in the center is Tokyo Opera City Tower.
Transmitters on TMG's Tower 2.
In front is The Dai-Ichi Building. In the middle left is The Tokyo Hilton and right is The Tokyo Medical College Hospital. Behind that is The Shinjuku Oak Tower.
Nice little park in the middle of concrete metropolis. The building with the curved base is The Yasuda Kasai Kaijo Building.
Square in front of The TMG Building.
Toky Olympic Stadium just outside Yoyogi Park.
Inside Yoyogi Park. The park is a popular hangout, especially on Sundays, when it is used as a gathering place for people to play music, practice martial arts, etc.
A little pond in Yoygi Park.
Woden torii leading into Meiji Jingu Outer Gardens.
Display of lanterns on the walk way up to The Meiji Shrine.
Close up of a lantern with its donors name on it.
A hand-washing stand for the ritual purification of shrine visitors.
Entrance gate to The Meiji Shrine.
The court yard inside The Meiji Shrine.
People writting wishes and messages to the Gods.
The Meiji Shrine.
Inside the shrine.
A Shinto priest beats a Taiko drum. It is very common to find Taiko drums in Buddhist and Shinto temples and shrines.
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. This park has over 20,000 trees. The park blends three distinct styles of gardens, French Formal, English Landscape and Japanese Traditional, and is considered to be one of the most important gardens from the Meiji era.
Stone bridge in The Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.
Who would think that this is downtown in one of the worlds largest cities.
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