NIKE Park, Shibuya

Major sporting brand NIKE has bought out the infamous park in Shibuya called Miyashita Koen.

This place was a mess until last November.

Trees were growing out of control, rubbish, grass also growing out of control.

All the home-less people were ejoying living here, they had a great community going, although once they found out that NIKE bought the land, they werent to happy.

If you were on the train headig to Harajuku from Shibuya you will see big banners saying "NO NIKE".

To tell you the truth, I can't stand on either peoples side but I am quite happy that NIKE are bulding somethig productive.

I'm sure this is going to build the population for people who skate and the level of skateboarding in Tokyo.

And also I can go skate on my lunch breaks and afterwork.

Friends at W-Base, Kiyo Kaito, climbed up a building and took all these pics.

Eve though they said they got into shit with the security, thanks alot for doing this.

Check the pics.

http://www.warpweb.jp/pc/wbase/