Unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries before I could finish, so I’ll have to do the last leg tomorrow. Before the batteries died though, I made it nearly to Tamachi from Uguisudani station. 23287 steps, 594 calories, 11.64 km. Stations passed along the way: Ueno, Okachimachi, Akihabara, Kanda, Tokyo, Yurakucho, Shimbashi, Hamamatsu-cho. I took so many photos today that I stopped and picked up another compact flash card! Day 3/4 video tomorrow, and entire Yamanote Line Walking video by next week.
Today, I started my little project: “Yamanote Line Walking”. Day 1 took me from Meguro Station to Ikebukuro Station taking photos along the way, and turning those photos into a YouTube video. The video is a little over 6 minutes long, so if you get tired with one area skip to another.
My pedometer recorded 24468 steps burning 596 calories through the 12.23 kilometers walked.
I took 1442 walking photos and more.
This leg of the loop took 5 hours to complete.
I have walked from Meguro to Shinjuku before in parts, but never all at once. From Shinjuku to Ikebukuro, it was for the most part new to me, so I was quite interested what I would find. Those thoughts are for later though. The origin of this project was an acquaintance of mine who does this walk every year but all at once. With his friends, he walks from Tokyo Station right around central Tokyo following the Yamanote Line and ends back at Tokyo Station in some 12 hours. I couldn’t possible do that at my lethargic pace and taking photos too. Today, of the 29 stations on the line, I completed 9 in 5 hours. Not a bad pace for this 3 day project.
Take a look at the video and tell me what you think!
A good friend of mine, a photographer, is at this very moment in Kyoto searching out the non-traditional, the modern, that he believes must exist. He just posted a few examples on his mixi diary, so I’d like to share them with you.
