28/05/2022
【Muchan Tour vol.6】report :
It was a beautiful day today.
We visited Meijijingu Shrine in the morning.
The great aroma of trees in this rich forest reached us soon after gettig into the precinct.
This forest is actually an artificial forest created by some botanists to make it rich forest in 100 years.
They chose evergreen broad-leaves trees carefully. Now this forest becomes like a sanctuary without any steps of human being for 100 years.
I introduced a couple of camphor trees tided with a sacred rope, which is representative of a nice husband and a wife. Next we walked around the place where votive tablets are suspended, looking at them. The oracle in this shrine is the poem made by Emperor Meiji written in both English and Japanese.
We were having a conversation about the reason why Emperor Meiji became a god in the 20th century.
We appreciated Yoyogi national gymnastics designed by Kenzo Tange, and Yoyogi Park which used to be venues and the olympic village in the previous Tokyo Olympic in 1964 from on the pedestrian bridge.
We were also looking at Co-op Olympia built in 1965, which would be a kind of legacy. The price of this apartment was said to be 100 million yen even at that time!
We walked Takesh*tadori St. via Brahms Alley, and went to Tokyu Plaza talking about characteristic Harajuku fashion and its back ground.
After that we appreciated beautiful architecture along Omotesando Av. such as Dior, GYRE, etc.
We had an interesting conversation about the reason why this avenue became such a beautiful show case of architecture.
Next, we were walking around Minami Aoyama area up to Nezu Museum.
The guest seemed so excited to see Prada and Nezu Museum!
Then I introduced a cute cafe along a back street of Aoyamadori Av and took a break for a while on the roof top of the cafe.
It was a lot of fun today !
Thank you very much!!