Tokyo has many outstandingly beautiful parks and gardens. Most of them are only visited by locals and keep their treasures hidden away from tourists. We have seen fields of flowers in bloom, meticulously clipped shrubbery and artificial hills that have got their soft green coverage by centuries of trimming.
Many of these gardens have been more and more confined by the growing sprawl of modern Tokyo but a few larger ones remained. All of them create a strong contrast to their surroundings and are like oases in the middle of steel and concrete giants providing you with moments of calmness and peace.
The image below shows an old tea house within one of the remaining large ones and you can see how skyscrapers are surrounding this park from Edo times closer and closer.
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The HDR image was created with Photomatix from 9 RAW pictures taken with Nikon D200 48 mm 1/6 sec - F4.5 to 1/350 sec - F10. It was post-processed in Gimp.
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