The ‘ancient’ forest is a century old: planted in 1920 with a hundred thousand donated trees.
The forest that seems to have always been there was planted between 1915 and 1920: a hundred thousand trees donated from all over Japan and its colonies, 365 different species. It was designed to turn from an artificial wood into a natural forest within a century, and it is succeeding.
A shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji, in the forest between Harajuku and Yoyogi.
ℹ️ The film shows a night scene, but the shrine is open from dawn to dusk: at night the gates are closed.
🚉 Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' · 13 min walk
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Where Kirito meets the ‘white Yuna’ in ‘Ordinal Scale’: he parks his motorbike at the entrance to the approach avenue, and on the bridge along the sandō she touches his Augma, opening the virtual space in which the two of them talk.
Sources: screenonline.jp · furaba-animeseichi.blog.jp · ja.wikipedia.org
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Harajuku and Omotesandō500 mphoto by Daderot · CC0
Yoyogi Park600 mphoto by kcomiida · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Yoyogi National Gymnasium — First Arena800 mphoto by Joe Jones (redjoe, Flickr) · CC BY 2.0