Tokyo is the capital of Japan. The city's design is the result of the coming together of so many architectural layouts. Hopelessly tragic and utterly doomed is Tokyo, the great megalopolis of seemingly gravity defying high rises and hyper malls, where permanence and ephemeral styles of architecture converge upon each other.
But amidst all of this noise and order the continuity of tradition still manages to thrive at the heart of this sleepless super city. It goes without saying that Tokyo is a forever changing city. I was destroyed twice, like so many of its temples and shrines, and then rebuilt to reflect the time and era. City planners and Japanese design consultants acquire a sense of how they wanted Tokyo to look when it was rebuilt a second time they put pen to paper. They thought up ways in which to create the most advanced city in the world and succeeded while remembering that tradition is their foundation for everything they set out to do. The only building in Tokyo that never conformed to traditional Japanese architectural styles is the Tokyo Government office building - Japan's only 'Twin Towers.'
Ephemerality is the identity of Tokyo; through flow and transparency. The idea of Impermanence is through its strong foundations, which are the building blocks of all Japanese architecture. Take Yasuda Gardens for example. Here is a park that is located in the center of Sumida Ward in downtown Tokyo. You can sit in this park and enjoy being in a classical style Japanese park. It is a park so well thought out that not even the noise from outside seep in through its bamboo surroundings.
A wild life sanctuary is built right in the center of the park where visitors attention is drawn right to the center where a large pond is located. In the center of that pond is a mote were you can see the Fisher King bird species.
There are two types of Japanese gardens. These are Tsukiyama which represents mountains and the pond represents the sea. The Kareasansui a white sand symbolizes the sea, and the stones represent hills, which often times can be seen in Kyoto.
In Tokyo, half of the land is urbanized, including commercial and residential districts, while natural areas and greenery have shrunk significantly due to modernization and property acquisition. There is still a wonderful balance that's never forsaken in an attempt to modernize the city.
The contrast between the park and Sumida river is extreme in my opinion. But again, that shows the dynamic of Tokyo's urban planning. in the end, it all works very well together; rivers, parks, the whole cityscape. The Tokyo Skyline has the underpinnings of culture, yet, it is often times concealed within stone and steel structures that are hard to point out. The city is tragically beautiful, because nothing seems to work, but does.
http://thesoulofjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/05/soul-of-japan-greatest-onsen.html
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