When strolling through the back streets of Ebisu, I made the aquaintance of a giant octopus in the middle of a playground. This huge concrete animal is certainly the best out of all those stone painted animals I’ve come across so far. Look at those shapes! I wonder if there is such a thing like a “playground animal designer”? Who makes all these colorful creatures spread all over Tokyo? I even came across a “rip-off” of those desirable stone animals: two pandas made out of plastic to attract kids- in front of a restaurant in Musashi- Kosugi.
Written by Uleshka
giant octopus in Ebisu
giant octopus close up with baby
giant octopus back side climbing wall
kanguroo
little red.... squirrel?
if this one is a squirrel, what's the other one?
koala with spring
plastic pandas
Uleshka defeating plastic panda
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Posted by: ee on August 4th, 2005 at 12:37 am
bonjour mademoiselle uleshka,
j’aime bien le PINGMAG, particulière l’interview avec monsieur l’animateur ;-)
grands bisous pour toi!
Posted by: syl on August 4th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
Where is this? I’m in Hiro-o, and I’ve been trying to find some cool playgrounds for my daughter.
(There IS the toy robots playground connected to Roppongi Hills residences, right next to the Roppongi Lutheran Church…)
Posted by: greg from daddytypes on August 5th, 2005 at 9:27 pm
if you walk from ebisu station towards hiroo, that playground is close to the river and BEFORE you cross that big street… not a big describer. kind of diagonal from ebisu to hiroo… oh dear! write me a mail and i will send you a mapion link, if you need one (i tried pasting it in here, but than the superlong link goes over all the pages ;-)
Posted by: uleshka on August 5th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
I know that one… was one of my son’s favourites… there is a smaller version, not so big and colou-red, next amerika-bashi, Ebisu Garden Place…
this one is definitely better
Posted by: roberto on October 25th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
funny anımals
Posted by: kurye on February 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
thanks for subject. it is very intersting post
Posted by: nakliyat on February 28th, 2008 at 3:16 am
The “litte red… squirrel?” is either a seal with a ball, or an otter. But I think it’s a seal. :3
Posted by: Momoe on April 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am