Gotenyama Falls

Riding my bicycle home from Hara Museum in Shinagawa, I found this incredible garden next to Gotenyama Hills. Like Shiroyama Hills, it has an accompanying garden for office workers. In a city as overbuilt (and paved-over) as Tokyo, where did they (Mori Trust) find this land after the 1980s land bubble? The building feels 1990s'ish, so perhaps they tore down an Old Town area to plant this garden.

Part of it is a set of man-made waterfalls. Photographed at night provides the enchanting effect of water in motion. Professionals with better equipment probably need to slow down their lens to replicate this effect. Fortunately, my simple point-and-shoot accomplishes the same without effort.

To the left, over a tiny one lane road lies one of the largest (and loudest) train stations in Tokyo. Fortunately, the roar of the falls easily overwhelms the noise of the nearby tracks. There is a walkway at the top of the falls with benches, and a path at the base also with benches. When the weather improves, I will certainly return with a bento box for some peace and noise.