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Shinjuku Slow Space
Shinjuku Slow Space

The homeless man is setting up his cardboard in front of Green Peas. Flags and the stairs to the Southeast Exit are to our right, and you're looking at and past the camera position in yesterday's photo.

The overpass is 新宿跨線橋, or Shinjuku Rail Overpass. It's part of the Koshukaido 甲州街道 , a highway created in 1601 which leads from Nihonbashi, past Shinjuku and all the way to Yamagata. Obviously they didn't have rail overpasses back then. The bridge dates from 1925 and was recently in desperate need of seismic upgrades -- ironic because it was built just after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

While they were at it, the powers that be decided to give an even much more needed widening to the sidewalk along the south edge of Shinjuku Station. And have you ever taken a highway bus into Shinjuku? The parking area in back is madness! So they threw in a whole new multi-story building with bus terminal. Shinjuku Station is edging ever closer to Shibuya.

Hence the construction in this photo in 2009.

In the background is the department store Takashimaya, which has a great depachika デパ地下 (department store basement -- always refers to a food floor), and you can just make out the top of the NTT Yoyogi building. Can you figure out where you are in the first photo?

Over on the right are the JR offices and Odakyu Southern Tower. On the left you can see the sporting goods store Victoria where we got our badminton rackets.

On a beautiful day in November, 2009, I took a series of photographs on a loop walk of Shinjuku Station. I'll be posting them one per day with anything that comes to mind.

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Taken on: November 15, 2009
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ISO: 80
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