I am not a native English speaker, so, posting blogs in English is a good opportunity to learn foreign language. I recently learnt a proverb, "It's hard to see what is right under your nose". I would like to memorize this proverb using a real example.
Last week, I visited Seijo-gakuenmae in my neighborhood for shopping. After shopping, I stopped by a roof garden on the Seijo Corty Shopping Mall. It’s close to my house, but it was my first visit. As soon as I arrived at the garden, I found a nice train observation deck. I didn't know there was such a nice spot nearby my house. “It's hard to see what is right under your nose.” That's exactly how it is.
Enough with the preamble, please look at the top photo. You can see a straight quadruple track on the Odakyu line. Two trains are traveling together. They are the EMU Tokyo Metro 16000 series (left) and the Odakyu 8000 series (right). The former is traveling on the express train track. On the other hand, the latter is travelling on the local train track. They are beautifully shining bathing in the afternoon sun. Don’t you get excited? Even better, there are comfortable benches surrounded by trees on this deck. Sitting on the bench, I could enjoy relaxing time.
Incidentally, please check out my previous posts on the train observation decks in the Tokyo metropolitan area as well, if you have time. Shimogoindenbashi, Kitatopia, Shibuya Hikarie, Horinouchi, Fuefuki… and so on.
