I am in Australia on the Gold Coast at the moment. It is another beautiful Australian morning as I look out over the canals. The Gold Coast has a great setup with beaches, shopping, golf courses, mountains and a set of canals that people live on.
The water is very peaceful and provides a great view. In Japan, canals are not very popular. There are some nice rivers and canals towards Shinagawa, Shibaura area but most people still view them as a bit dirty.
Maybe in the future they will be seen as peaceful relaxing waterways to enjoy and land prices on the Tokyo waterfront canals may increase.
I will be back in Japan on Wednesday night.
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Gorgeous view - from your folks house?
Student
nice stuff, hope you enjoy some of the animals we got here too.
The whole "view canals badly" idea was probably mainly due to the high economic growth period where heavy pollution filled up these canals. 60s and 70s. however as you may see now, it's clearly not the case, with all these Koi sticking around enjoying the clear water =). if they can naturalise the water's edge and make it less concrete looking i'm sure it could be a plan.
they once considered using Canal water transport in place of an extensive train network. Tokyo Venice?
Mirai Bustaaaaaaa!!!
This calls for a Lazy Day >:Dc
ゆっくりでいいさ!
master of woodchop
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In SoCal we have Venice named from Venice Iatly - they got canals, stinky water like Venice Italy. :P
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if it was a holiday, i'd be sleeping somewhere under a beach umbrella on the porch or lawn maybe.
the place looks serene and wonderful.
Metallurgist
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send some of that warm weather down here, dammit >/
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Wow, nice piece of realestate there... Canal living definately has its appeals.
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After a hard day sitting by the canal edge, I now have only 1 day left before returning to Japan ;)
still trying to figure it out...
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Really nice view, it reminded me of a city that is close where i live ^^
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Great view! Whereabouts in Gold Coast is this?
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Very close to Jupiters Casino
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Gold Coast!! I really want to go to Australia~ Nice photo!