One final, full, wonderful day. The rain had cleared this morning - this was part of the view from my room - and this meant that walking became a pleasure again ...
In the morning off to the Hara Museum of Art, in a leafy suburb, with some interesting architecture -
though the museum itself is apparently about to close. No photos inside, alas - but there was an amazing show: the Dreaming of Earth Project, launched in 2014 by the Korean artist Jae-eun Choi, and with works by Eliasson, among others - all of it focused around the ecology of the DMZ, and the potential for art to flourish in this space that would respect the land, and act to celebrate human and environmental interaction. It's a deliberately utopian, hypothetical project, and the more effective because of its premises of a hypothetical future.
Then back into town, to Shinjuku/Harajuku - much trendier and cosmopolitan than anything else I've seen in Japan, and certainly the only place where there's any street art (in a limited, and cautious way).
... and some other surprises, besides.
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