Pocket Parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro

Higasa Park
Sun Sun Park

As I mentioned in my post about the this week’s “My Private Tokyo” segment I did for NHK’s TOKYO EYE program, I took a photo of each of the 11 pocket parks, which you can view in this Flickr photoset. Pictured above are the Higasa park and the Sun Sun park.

Category: TV • Tokyo Walking

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i was sitting here in hong kong flipping through the channels … what a surprise! nice show!

07.07.14 12:41
Posted by huschang
Hahaha… Thanks!

07.07.15 11:07
Posted by Jean Snow

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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.

The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.

Jean Snow is a regular contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering daily game news from Japan and beyond.

He is also the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.

PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of 20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens June 2.