{"id":1452,"date":"2021-07-14T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradweier.com\/bradblog2\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2021-07-14T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:08:42","slug":"june-2021-a-park-a-parking-lot-and-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bradweier.com\/bradblog2\/2021\/07\/june-2021-a-park-a-parking-lot-and-a-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2021 – A Park, a Parking Lot, and a Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month I visited the most boring park in Tokyo and got frustrated with a puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zenpukuji Park<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the pandemic, I have sought the safest ways to get out of my apartment, which means that I have exhausted all the nearby parks and shrines. After desperately scanning Google Maps, I managed to find a park with two shrines I had not yet seen about twenty minutes west of Nakano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The day was muggy, the walk from the station was long, and I was rewarded with a park that contained a single statue and a featureless, large pond with ubiquitous swan paddle boats. Despite 20 minutes of searching and pin-point directions from my smartphone, I could not locate the southernmost shrine. Mosquitoes started to bite and shadows began to grow long, so I gave up and searched for the northern shrine. This turned out to be a single, small stone building on a tiny island entirely surrounded by a moat. The island contained so many trees that there was basically a single photo opportunity, straight on to the front of the shrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disappointed by these dull trappings, I redoubled my efforts to find the first shrine. It turned out to be a tiny pile of stones behind a miniature torii gate completely enclosed by an apartment building parking lot. I can\u2019t figure out why Google Maps would even have bothered to list it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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