East Asumi
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@logintime: wow, I'm sorry I "stole" your Idea, I hope this CJ will make your expectations! This second entry should have been the historical one with all the historical background of the city but since in the end it become a lot of material I will divide it in at least three entries that i will post later.
The first part of this City Journal will start in the Asumi District of Hirohashi and will follow the Saito Line trough the countryside to Saito, a small town on the tip of the peninsula with the same name.
(The awesome Dragon Island CJ by Skimbo was one of the main inspiration for my CJ and I will use often his journal concept of showing the city from the standpoint of transit lines)
Our Journey start at Asumi Downtown Station: the main urban rail station of the city facing Downtown Asumi, one of the three parts of Asumi District, but we'll visit that part another time while today we'll focus on the eastern part of Asumi District
You can see a Saito Line train with his distinguishing blue color coming from the left corner of the picture.
Saito Line bypass other two lines and turns south, on the foreground you can see highrise apartment from Downtown Asumi
On the left of the railroad tracks stands one of the many skyscrapers of the downtown while on the right a bunch of small houses still survive in the middle of the chaotic city centre.
In the middle of this picture stand East Asumi High School, despite it's modest appearence this is one of the most prestigious school of the city.
On the left still East Asumi High School, on the right a modern office building encircled by highrise apartment: the eastern part of Asumi District is mainly residential while the central part (Downtown Asumi) contains the headquarters of many financial companies.
Thats the main shopping district of east Asumi: the plaza near the waterfront and the sorrounding streets are a common meeting place among Hirohashi inhabitants
With the densification of the district in the nineties the project of the Asumi Waterfront Park was approved.
This led to the demolition of many lowrise houses on the waterfront, the houses north of that bridge leading to Inoue District were spared for the opposition of the C.E.O. of a big financial company, heir of an old family descending from the first merchants of Hirohashi, that still live in the big house in the middle of the block.
Back in the heart of east Asumi, in the middle of the picture, wedged between buildings stand East Asumi Station: a train just left from the station heading south.
Here's the same train passing through buildings, over the bridge that will lead over the river to Inoue District
On the left the train is now on the bridge, in the middle of the picture the plaza we met earlier
And here's a picture of the whole eastern part of Asumi District
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