(1) West Side Shinjuku (2) Haneda Airport
Well, I’ve been having such a fun time playing with Google Earth so I took a few screengrabs and posted them here. How well do you know Tokyo? Can you guess all of these places? I’ve included some easy ones. Take note that many of these satellite photos are quite old and many landmarks we are familiar with don’t exist in the photos.
More below!
UPDATE: Just added 4 more photos. The last one’s easy but I included it because you can see people!
UPDATE: I’ve put the answers up. Select the space underneath the pictures to see the answers, but not until you try to guess them first.
(3) Hanayashiki - Asakusa (4) Sangenjaya (5) Odaiba (6) Kasai-Rinkan Koen
(7) Budokan (8) Koma Theatre - Kabukicho (9) Tokyo University (10) Ikebukuro - West Exit
(11) Umi-hotaru - Aqualine (12) Ebisu Garden Place (13) Komazawa Park (14) Akihabara
(15) Isetan - Shinjuku (16) Omotesando Crossing (17) Rainbow Bridge (18) Tokyo Disneyland
(19) Kabuki Theatre - Higashi Ginza (20) Shinjuku Station - East Side (21) Nakano Sun Plaza (22) Toshimaen
Damn. That’s a hard quiz!
1. West Shinjuku
2. Near Asakusa?
5. Fuji TV in Odaiba?
16. Omotesando/Aoyama?
17. Shinagawa/Rainbow Bridge
18. Mickey’s house.
Very good, number 2 is Haneda Airport. I assume you meant number 3 and yes it is near Asakusa, but what is the name of the thing in the centre there? I’m surprised you got 16. That picture must be about 10 years old.
Good Job. Now can you get the others?
Oops, yeah you’re right I meant 3. I wasn’t sure if that was Haneda though. I’ve only flown into Haneda once about 4 years ago. I don’t remember the name of that Amusement park by Asakusa either, only been there once too. Man there is a lot in Tokyo that I haven’t seen. Im thinking either 4 or 11 might be Akihabara.
20. near Kabukicho.
22. Hey I’m going there next week!
Rick, I put up the answers so you can check them out.
Hey,
Can you run GoogleEarth on a Mac?
I cant.
all the best,
Hank
GoogleEarth is not available on Mac yet. I’m running it off my IBM laptop.