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highway, Tokyo. Tokyowalking

Tokyo has many highways (syutoko). However, most highways in Tokyo are built before Tokyo  Olympic (1964 :   Tokyo Olympic ) . Tokyo was nothing just after 2nd war. maybe, you can check many photos in the Internet about Tokyo just after 2nd war. so, the largest question is why there long distances of highways in Tokyo were built only less than 20years? Because if they were built from nothing, then it was needed more than hundreds years. the answer is there highways were reused of moat around castle. Tokyo had been capital since 3-400 years ago( Edo period :  1603 – 1868 ). so, there moats were grown using for 300-400 years. As following photos are a part of highway. You can see a wall on right side on each photo. They are a trace of moat. If you have interest in this seen, you can see Shintomicyo. I pined on a map on this blog. Syutoko 

Discover of tokyo "Omotesando area": it mixes modern design and old things

i may write some posts about life tracking devices. well, after i start to use such devices, our walking distance became larger .  it was two km was the largest distance for walking, when we got them. now, especially, after came back from europe, two km for our walking is normal thing. we walked 30km on beginning of this month. And, we walked 23km on last weekend. "I'll write review about such devices later. " today, i write about walking on one day of last weekend. I walked around omitesando, tokyo. it is an area between harajyuku and gaien park. Usually, the area are famous for modern and arts. I do not know well about tokyo. But, i also know littele bit about the area, even if i am such person. In that walking, I could find more new knowledge about omotesando. Following photo is a exact same as my image for Omotesando. Above photo is a french foods restaurant. And Cafes. Like as above, Omotesando has many shop which is famous for girls and ...