Street life in Zoushigaya (part 5)
This old sign for a shoe shop, offering repair and shoe-making, adds to the neighborly feel of Zoushigaya and the sense of long-time reside....
31 Jan 9:03 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Zoushigaya micro-gardens (part 3)
Old Tokyo neighborhoods like Zoushigaya are full of plant lovers who manage to create gardens where there is almost no space. This type of ....
29 Jan 9:02 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Zoushigaya walk: winter citrus trees (part 2)
On our walk through Zoushigaya, we came across this mature yuzu tree, growing in the small space between the street and a residence. Yuzu i....
28 Jan 9:07 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
A public train set in a Zoushigaya garden
My friend Eri, a pianist and music teacher, invited me to go for a walk near her college in Zoushigaya. I wasn’t sure what to expect sinc....
27 Jan 9:03 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Shinagawa station: a river of people
The continuous flow of people in Tokyo’s largest stations (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Tokyo Station, and Shinagawa) is a sensory overload of ....
23 Jan 12:53 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Winter flowers brighten Tokyo
Tokyo’s mild winter is amazing. All these photos of winter flowers are from yesterday, January 20, 2010. Ranging from natural to forced, ....
21 Jan 12:08 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Portland’s Greenstreets add plants and reduce river pollution
Portland, Oregon is redesigning its streetscapes to create hundreds of new sidewalk plantings that capture stormwater runoff. As you can se....
18 Jan 9:58 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Damage to small public garden in San Francisco
Although I am now living in Tokyo, across the Pacific in San Francisco I have a public garden that extends onto the sidewalk. Last week I h....
17 Jan 11:33 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
New Year Poetry Reading at Imperial Palace
On Thursday, the Imperial Palace hosted a formal New Year Poetry Reading, with this year’s theme being “light” (hikari). On this very....
16 Jan 10:55 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Gardening for Strangers in Tokyo: New Huffington Post article
The Huffington Post published the English version of my recent Newsweek Japan article. Entitled “Gardening for Strangers in Tokyo,” it ....
13 Jan 6:21 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Wild parrots in Hiroo
Walking on a small street in Hiroo, in central Tokyo, we heard a strange noise and saw some people staring at a persimmon tree. On closer e....
22 Dec 9:01 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Street music
Many Tokyo train stations, and particularly Shinjuku station, are magnets for street musicians. Although not a “green space” in terms o....
20 Dec 9:04 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Late fall trees
Leaving Nodai one December day, I was struck by the bright yellow color of this ginko tree, and how it dwarfs the small street. This is the....
18 Dec 11:06 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tree breaks out of pot and into soil
This is a close-up of a small tree that has survived the disintegration of its styrofoam planter box and rooted itself into the ground. It ....
7 Dec 9:04 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Aoyama ginkos
Less famous than spring cherry blossom viewing or fall maple viewing, the Aoyama ginkos draw a crowd to see the gorgeous double allée of g....
5 Dec 10:43 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo
The Huffington Post published my article entitled “Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo.” I will become a regular blogger, so if you like the art....
3 Dec 11:35 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Perpetual Yamanote
My artist and product design friend Pierre Alex, whom I blogged about earlier, created this funny “anti-design” video about Tokyo’s mo....
3 Dec 9:12 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Holiday plants in Metro & Odakyu stations
I am not a big fan of the artificial tree or of Christmas. But Japanese love holidays, imported and national. I wonder whether the stations....
2 Dec 12:05 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Dead space by design IV: Stacked freeways in city
In front of Shinjuku’s Opera City, a high rise office tower with cultural facilities including theaters and a museum, four levels of sta....
23 Nov 9:12 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae
I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm bui....
22 Nov 10:54 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fall camelia in Tokyo
The weather is turning very cold in Tokyo, the leaves are turning color and fall camelias are now in bloom. This bright pink “sazanka” ....
20 Nov 8:35 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Taking JR Chuo line to pick kiwis
For an American, it is shocking to see how frequently all the Japanese transit lines advertise the lovely, and often seasonal places, they ....
19 Nov 9:01 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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