After the Fish Market, we stopped by the Hamarikyu Detached Palace Garden. It is another garden from another Shogun. This one, as you can see, is about 300 years old:
And here is the 300 year Pine. If you can read the sign above, it is named the 300-year Pine because it was planted 300 years ago.
This is called the Detached Garden because it was not next to the palace. The palace is now gone, but the garden is still here. And still detached.
Back in the Shogun's time, they would hunt ducks (for fun. I think most of them were Buddhists and didn't eat meat). They felt so bad about killing the ducks that they made a memorial to their little duck souls:
and this is what a duck soul memorial looks like:
One of the reasons we went to this park was that it is a jumping off point for one of the ferries from which you can take a river cruise. It is not really a cruise, in the sense that you get on at one point and get off on another. It is really transportation.
It was a good trip.
Cormorants and gulls. Neither being used for fishing.
This is Fuji-Film headquarters.
I think that this was the name of the ferry. I can live with that.
a freighter.
This is the river side of the Fish Market. I can't stay away from that place!
A bridge
another bridge. There were a lot of bridges.
That is the Asahi beer HQ with that odd plume-like thing on top. It is supposed to represent the head on a beer. It does not do a very good job, and is know by a very vulgar term in Japan. You can imagine what the term is.
And here is the 300 year Pine. If you can read the sign above, it is named the 300-year Pine because it was planted 300 years ago.
This is called the Detached Garden because it was not next to the palace. The palace is now gone, but the garden is still here. And still detached.
Back in the Shogun's time, they would hunt ducks (for fun. I think most of them were Buddhists and didn't eat meat). They felt so bad about killing the ducks that they made a memorial to their little duck souls:
and this is what a duck soul memorial looks like:
One of the reasons we went to this park was that it is a jumping off point for one of the ferries from which you can take a river cruise. It is not really a cruise, in the sense that you get on at one point and get off on another. It is really transportation.
It was a good trip.
Cormorants and gulls. Neither being used for fishing.
This is Fuji-Film headquarters.
I think that this was the name of the ferry. I can live with that.
a freighter.
This is the river side of the Fish Market. I can't stay away from that place!
A bridge
another bridge. There were a lot of bridges.
That is the Asahi beer HQ with that odd plume-like thing on top. It is supposed to represent the head on a beer. It does not do a very good job, and is know by a very vulgar term in Japan. You can imagine what the term is.
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