Gorgeous balcony garden on top of decrepit building

May 7, 2011public space, Residences, Walking and transitaging, balcony, bike, central, 神宮前, decrepit, dirty, expensive, 高層ビル, garden, green space, high rise, huge, Jingumae, old, semi-abandoned, wild, 古い, 庭, 建物palmsundae

東京では古い建物に面白い庭がよくあります。高層ビルにもあります。

Another garden I saw from my bike in central Tokyo is this huge balcony garden on top of what looks like a semi-abandonded ten story building. The windows below the garden are either covered up, dirty, or reveal stacks of boxes. I wonder if the building is mixed use, and how such a large and well established garden ended up there. The Jingumae neighborhood is one of central Tokyo’s most expensive areas.

I often notice that the most intriguing and wild green spaces grow next to older buildings. It’s interesting to see the same phenomenon on an aging high-rise.