Giant octopus and his friends

3 Aug 2005 Category: Japan, Products

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 in Ebisu
giant octopus close up with baby
giant octopus close up with baby

giant octopus back side climbing wall
giant octopus back side climbing wall
kanguroo
kanguroo

little red.... squirrel?
little red.... squirrel?
if this one is a squirrel, what's the other one?
if this one is a squirrel, what's the other one?

koala with spring
koala with spring
plastic pandas
plastic pandas

Uleshka defeating plastic panda
Uleshka defeating plastic panda

10 Comments

  1. eeee

    Posted by: ee on August 4th, 2005 at 12:37 am

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. funny anımals

    Posted by: kurye on February 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

  7. thanks for subject. it is very intersting post

    Posted by: nakliyat on February 28th, 2008 at 3:16 am

  8. 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

  9. all exhibitions done is Japan require visitors fill out their information. this is done so that the organizers can send

    Posted by: perdeci on December 24th, 2010 at 2:16 pm

  10. This is good Internet marketing and public relations.

    Posted by: christian louboutin on November 10th, 2011 at 1:19 pm

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