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Kasai Rinkai Park waterfront

Bridge to swimming beaches at Kasai Kaihin Park.

Kasai Rinkai Park waterfront. 葛西臨海公園

Kasai Kaihin Park beach. It's not Hawaii, but better than nothing. 葛西海浜公園

Baby stingray (dead) beached.

Swimmers in summer at Kasai Kaihin Park, one of the few places in Tokyo where you can enjoy an ocean beach.

Kasai Kaihin Park beach

No swimming sign

Kasai Kaihin Park beach. In the distance are Tokyo Disneyland hotels.

In the murky waters.

Edogawa River mouth next to Kasai Rinkai Park

Kasai Rinkai Park ferris wheel

Kasai Rinkai Park ferris wheel. Distorted by wide-angle lens. (It does not lean like that.)

View of Kasai Rinkai Park from ferris wheel.

Don't ride the ferris wheel if you're afraid of heights. It is very high and the wind blows through.

View of Kasai Rinkai Park from ferris wheel. Disneyland in the distance.

The spacious park is an oasis. Lots of greenery, a beach, bicycling roads, birdwatching stations, and an aquarium.

View of Kasai Kaihin Park

Tokyo Sea Life Park

Tokyo Sea Life Park aquarium

Tokyo Sea Life Park's main attraction: Tuna aquarium

Needless to say, the subway/trains stations were jammed with people by 5 pm. This is when I got off the train at Shinozaki Station on the Toei Shinjuku subway line on Aug.1, 2009.

Still in Shinozaki Station heading for the exit. Koiwa Station on the JR Sobu Line must also have been crowded.

Now walking to the Edogawa riverbank.

Getting to the steps up the riverbank.

After getting to the top of the riverbank, this is the spectacle I came to see and photograph.

Some 900,000 of humanity gathered here for the Edogawa-ku Fireworks in Aug.

And you think your largest soccer stadium can hold a lotta people. Come see here.

It was a lot more crowded than the last time I saw these fireworks years ago.

The Edogawa Ward Fireworks display is one of Tokyo's largest with a massive attendance of 900,000 people in both Edogawa Ward and neighboring Ichikawa city in Chiba. .

People are spread out along the riverbank of Edogawa River. Held on the first Sat. of Aug. at 7:15 pm to 8:25 pm. If weather is bad, it is held on the next day

The fireworks started exactly at 7:15 pm.

Mt. Fuji

I'm definitely not a good fireworks photographer. To avoid the crowds, I left the scene about 30 min. before the fireworks ended.

Back at Shinozaki Station, it was quite quick to get on a train. "Keep walking slowly and do not stop."

I shuddered to think how crowded the station would become in about 30-40 min.

Right in front of Funabori Station on the Toei Shinjuku subway line is this tall tower with a view. It's part of the Tower Hall Funabori building. It's a banquet hall and convention center. タワーホール船堀

Funabori Tower is 103 meters high and has free admission. The lookout deck has picture windows on all four sides. Take the elevator, open 9 amto 9:30 pm. May be closed in case of high winds.

Top view of Funabori Station on the Toei Shinjuku subway line.

The straight road is Funabori Green Road that goes to Shinkawa River.

Funabori Tower has great views of Arakawa River. This is looking west.

Looking toward Tokyo Skytree.

The straight road is Funabori Green Road that goes to Shinkawa River.

Looking north.

Funabori Station 船堀駅

In front of Funabori Station. 船堀駅

Exhibition space inside Tower Hall Funabori.

Funabori Station

JR Koiwa Station, north exit

JR Koiwa Station, north exit sculpture

JR Koiwa Station, south exit

JR Koiwa Station, south side

JR Koiwa Station has this statue of Yokozuna Tochinishiki, a famous sumo wrestler who was from Koiwa.

Statue of Yokozuna Tochinishiki (1925-1990) inside JR Koiwa Station. The statue is now a popular meeting place inside the station.

Statue of Yokozuna Tochinishiki inside JR Koiwa Station. He was the 44th yokozuna and head of the Japan Sumo Association during 1974-1988. The new and current Kokugikan was built under his watch.

It's a very good likeness, and almost life-size. After retiring as an active wrestler, he became Kasugano oyakata.

Very well done, and wise to put it inside the station where birds cannot sully it.

Back view.

Showa-dori shopping street near Koiwa Station.

Shopping street near Koiwa Station.

Komatsugawa Cherry Blossoms (Komatsugawa Senbon-zakura) are along the west side of Arakawa River.

They line the pedestrian and cycling path on the riverbank. Very nice. Near Higashi-Ojima Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line.

Cycling here when the cherry blossoms are in bloom is very pleasant.

Toei Shinjuku subway line tracks over Arakawa River. The tower in the background is Funabori Tower.

Map of the area.

Arakawa River sign.

Heisei Bridge on the Edogawa-ku side. 平成橋

Visited Heisei Bridge in the last year of the Heisei Period (2019). Heisei Bridge was built in Dec. 1994 (Heisei 6). 平成橋

Heisei Bridge on the Edogawa-ku side. 平成橋

Heisei Bridge on the Edogawa-ku side. The other half of the bridge is in Koto-ku. 平成橋

Hiroshige woodblock print of this place.

The Koiwa Iris Garden is a large patch along the Edogawa River. With about 50,000 iris plants, the garden comes alive with purple, white, and pink irises in late May and June.With irises mainly donated by residents, the garden opened in June 1982. A 5-min. walk from Edogawa Station on the Keisei Line or 25 min. walk from Koiwa Station on the JR Sobu Line. Free admission. I walked from Koiwa Station and saw this sign for the Koiwa Iris Garden (Koiwa Shobu-en).

Walk further along the Edogawa River and you see this. The iris garden occupies a good-sized area along the river.

The irises are in full bloom during mid-June.

Enter here.

Kanji characters read "Koiwa Shobu-en."

Shobu (Irises)

Gate to the Koiwa Iris Garden. Free admission. Open

The garden has walking paths and a few rest houses. Wheelchair-friendly as well.

The Keisei train line straddles the garden.

One large patch has nameplates for various irises.

Steepled Ripples from the USA.

Pink Frost from the USA.

The iris garden also has some hydrangea, but they were withered by the time I visited the garden in mid-June.

Poster for Koiwa Iris Garden Festival.

Entrance to the Tokyo subway museum named Tokyo Metro Museum. It's under the elevated Tozai Line tracks. Near Kasai Station on the Tozai subway line.Official website: http://www.chikahaku.jp/en/

Enter the museum through this subway turnstile.See Japan's first subway cars from 1927, tunnel boring machines, subway history exhibits, and simulators.