Me and Ame paid a visit to the Kyoto tower. It's really a tourist attraction, but I'm really happy that I went.
The whole place is just staggering. The Kyoto tower is not only a tower it's a mall, game centre, onsen, hotel and what not. And the whole glory is very prole – covered 70's and 80's tatty patina – like it's some how, out of times reach. For instance the game hall was three stores underground and completely empty of people. We stand around there for a moment and nobody showed up, the machines were just left on.
On the top of the tower, which reaches up to 130 meters, one gets gloriously dismal view over the air conditioner populated concrete roofs. Especially in Japan, where it's really crowded, the roofs have been taken to a good use. On the roof of the main Post building was a tennis court and a lawn, nobody was playing though. And since nobody is actually ever seeing the roofs, no attention has payed on how they look – so ones you see them, the view is truly brutal. Roofs are like a hidden, another much more morose and neorealist world than what we see from the ground level.
Also the mountain surrounding Kyoto got very well pictured from top of the tower. You felt like kind a unstable there, maybe the tower was swaying a bit causing it to feel woozy.
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