Beyond Mori Tower.

These views are from Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills, an ambitious city-within-a-city project that has an abundance of shops, cafes, apartments, a hotel, Virgin Cinemas, office space, and a large art exhibition center / viewing deck on the 52nd floor. This evening was hazy, so the tall tower district of Shinjuku is not visible.

Tokyo Tower and the Shuto Expressway Loop.

Mori Tower at right.

Digital Signage.
Roppongi Hills was designed by the people that brought you the Bellagio Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. Circulation through the complex is maddening - it's difficult to orient yourself or find your way out, but don't worry. It was intended to be like that. Best solution? Don't visit... well, for too long.

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Friday Night Lights.

Baseball seems to be a much bigger sport in Japan than in the U.S., the sport's birthplace. These school children practice pitching on a Friday evening near Roppongi.

Most sports surfaces in Tokyo are artificial. This artificial practice field lies in the shadow of Tokyo Tower.

Tokyo Tower itself is essentially anticlimatic; it is more of a shadow icon that appears in the background of our daily lives.

Glow Blocks.
Akabanebashi Metro Station is a beacon to those seeking to enter the mass underground people mover.

This Way And That Way.
An electronic billboard on the Shuto Expressway Loop directs drivers towards their destination.

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