Nikon FM2 / Kodak Portra 400
Hasselblad 500 C/M / Fuji Pro 800Z [expired 03/2012]
Nikon FM2 / Kodak Portra 400
We left Shimokitazawa with a plan to go to Yoyogi Park and visit Meiji Jungu. The journey took a while longer than we anticipated so we decided to walk part of the way and then walk around Yoyogi Park for a while and leave Meiji Jungu until the next day.
We found some cherry blossoms but there were lots of people engaged in the act of selfie taking and it was getting a bit dark so I didn’t get many frames of the chezzer blossoms. Emily had more luck than me.
Olympus XA / Agfa Vista Plus 200
The day we went to Meiji Shrine. We’d already been to Yoyogi Park after our trip to Shimokitazawa but didn’t have to visit the shrine. We headed there the next day and wandered to Harajuku to gawk at crêpe-munching teeny-boppers at Takashita Street and of course, munch some crêpes.
Meiji Jingu is pretty amazing actually. It’s set in a 700,000 m² wood – an impressive chunk of land set aside for such a project. The shrine itself was destroyed during WWII and was rebuilt afterwards. The Torii gates are the largest in the World and were built with cypress wood that was half-inched from Taiwan during he war.
Meiji Jingu and a few photos of the trek home. We finished up with ramen (again) near to our place but I can’t remember exactly where it was.
Nikon FM2 / Kodak Portra 400