From Jonanjima park (blue mark on the left) we biked under the tunnel to an island which doesn't appear to have a name, but it's is a waste disposal / power generation plant. (and I am 99% sure the site of Umi no Mori... though I wonder how they get their mail at the moment....
(The links below are quite interesting.) From there we went to blue marker on the right, Wakasu Keihin Koen. It's a relatively new park that allows overnight camping (for a fee) and is at the eastern end of Tokyo Gate Bridge. The Gate bridge opened a little over a year ago with relatively little fanfare.
I guess as more landfill islands are created, more bridges are going to need to be built... reducing the landfill would seem like a good option, though if there are enough artificial islands in the Bay, Tokyo might be able
develop power creation subsistence...
\http://www.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/en/attachement/tokyowindmillE.pdf Information about the power generation
http://www.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/civil_engineering/2007/91-4-3.pdf
Biking along |
I can sympathise with this sign and its spelling - it took me ages to work out how to spell Disney in Japanese letters & it still confuses me. |
Looking north from the pylon (dirty glass). Central Tokyo's industrial heartland. - all on reclaimed land. |
The pylon - we didn't walk the whole way across the bridge & back If the weather had been clearer, I might have been tempted. |
http://www.uminomori.metro.tokyo.jp/index_e.html
2 comments:
Tokyo Desny! (^0^)
Sometimes, just for the sheer hell of it, I try to write Afrikaans words in katakana.
Our guttural "g" is transcribed as "h". You can imagine what happens to a name like Gert Grobler (former SA ambassador).
This is just near Umi no Mori!
His time in Japan must have been excruciating for both him and the Japanese!
Katakana is torture, though it's actually quite useful as a guide with pronunciations of names in languages I have zero familiarity with.
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