![yumenoshima](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumenoshima.jpg?w=1000)
Before the rainy season and summer heat, I took a few day trips in Tokyo. One of the more remarkable places is Yumenoshima (夢の島), which means Dream Island.
![yumenoshima_entrance_palms_](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumenoshima_entrance_palms_.jpg?w=1000)
It was begun in the 1960s as a place to store huge amounts of garbage by creating a large island in Tokyo Bay. Today it has an enormous incinerator, spectacular greenhouse for plants, a gym, a marina, and some overgrown park areas.
![yumenoshima_palms2](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumenoshima_palms2.jpg?w=1000)
Of the palms I recognized the Canary Island palm, and what look like Mediterranean palms. Mostly deserted excepted for a few people going to the gym and cut off from the city by freeways, the park is large and somewhat mysterious. I love how the area around the incinerator and marina are full of surveillance video cameras and speakers everywhere playing muzak.
Three more images show a mosaic sign on the path pointing toward the greenhouse, the incinerator in all its twilight glory, and a cool analog sign reporting the emissions levels of the incinerators. I love how the numbers are impossible for lay people to interpret!
![yumeshima_mosaic](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumeshima_mosaic.jpg?w=1000)
![yumenoshima_incinerator](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumenoshima_incinerator.jpg?w=1000)
![yumenoshima_pollution_score](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/yumenoshima_pollution_score.jpg?w=1000)
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