IT’S RAINING,
SO LET’S GO TO
IKEBUKURO’S SUNSHINE CITY!

-photos: Valentin Grigore;
text: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe;
design: Florin Stancu-




If the rain troubles your plans to visit the world’s largest metropolis,
Tokyo (35 million people),
you can try your luck in Ikebukuro District
going to the Sunshine City
(“Tokyo’s first city within the city”),
a complex of 4 buildings
culminating with Sunshine 60
(240 m high),
the highest building in Asia in between 1978 and 1983,
in which you can find many interesting and various things…





























But for us the main attractions were placed
somewhere at the 10th floor in one of those buildings,
where we saw two amazing worlds:
an aquatic (real) one…



















































































…and, after a short intermezzo outside
(also at the 10th floor)…



































… a cosmic (simulated) one
(in a famous planetarium,
Japan having the largest number of planetariums in the world)…





















So
returning to the hotel after such an amazing visit,
I could concentrate all into a haiku,
the most famous Japanese poetic species:































In spite of the rain
you can find light and warmth in
the Sunshine City.

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-



-22 May 2012-

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© 2012 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)