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Street Guerrilla Gardening
Contributed by East Tokyo Survey, 22/02/2010 at 18:30
Not only in east Tokyo, but in many places where old cityscape remains, you will see “sidewalk gardens” with a bunch of planters almost sticking out to the streets.
In such areas, houses had been built to make the best use of limited lands, so there are no private gardens, of course. The planters occupy every little tiny space in a haphazard manner, and the flowers are grown totally at random.
They are not well-organized and may not be very beautiful, but you can enjoy a wide variety of flowers every time you look, and this is a different kind of pleasure than seeing, only once in a year, cherry blossoms and their ochestrated uniformity.
Construction regulations require that newly constructed buildings be at least two meters away from the center of the street. This means the nice, narrow, old streets will soon be disappearing from Tokyo. I hope these guerrilla gardens will quietly live on for a long, long time though.
