Tokyo: 4D Cityscape Puzzle
 

For my birthday, I got a Tokyo Puzzle with skyscrapers. Interestingly, it was linked from the SkyscraperPage.com home page: http://4dcityscape.com/. They have a bunch of cities, but I wanted Tokyo first, for reasons that may become apparent in these pictures.

(Note: all pictures are mine)

My birthday present. Godzilla can't wait to get stomping. I hope he's patient, puzzles are not one of my hobbies. I have enough trouble with my kids' wooden puzzles: "No, Elmo goes here"
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Ikf8t...AAAAAAAHaA/IA1WBhcz3Io/s720/_MCH0270.jpg

The bottom layer is a map from 1958 (4D=time). I got off to a good start, but it's kind of hard with 700 pieces of street grids. So I skipped ahead to the modern map, which would have all the skyscrapers.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TZ3aB...Lo/s720/Photo1%252520%2525282%252529.jpg

And here's Tokyo!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Etc7t...AAAAAAAHWE/q5va9oe2wJs/s912/_MCH0923.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jmm9f...AAAAAAAHWQ/BJbTLvrbfLI/s720/IMG_1622.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pWyx-...AAAAAAAHWg/5l9_HN9yAhM/s720/_MCH0986.JPG

Tokyo Tower stood out. This also gave me chance to play with my new lens (28-105mm 2.8-4 on my Nikon D2Hs)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-680z6...AAAAAAAHWk/ZPpKg9MQftw/s720/_MCH0010.JPG

Imperial Palace and Natl Diet Bldg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N8mX7...AAAAAAAHW8/pYNKpKcuqmQ/s720/_MCH0122.JPG

Shinjuku
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bRnBh...AAAAAAAHXU/APfavyt4RtY/s720/IMG_1623.JPG

Tokyo Sky Tree and Asakusa's 5-story pagoda (not quite to scale)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lR1ZR...AAAAAAAHX8/w9gbz4g8SG0/s720/_MCH0091.JPG

Who's waiting on the sidelines?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C9URI...AAAAAAAHYc/zDbg3x5Tf2Q/s720/_MCH0941.JPG

Tokyo has an infestation (in college, I collected Bandai Godzilla figurines)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-roCLg...AAAAAAAHYo/vDHIV_9DiXQ/s720/_MCH0967.JPG

Oh no, there goes Tokyo! Went macro on this one (85mm 1.8 lens)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eWkW5...AAAAAAAHZA/UuApq6mvN2g/s720/_MCH0976.JPG

Metropolitan Government Center, the buildings average about 1.5 inches tall.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XnZV0...AAAAAAAHZQ/JRt3HKXVHpQ/s720/_MCH0043.JPG

Tried to match some shots from my November 2010 Trip to Tokyo
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-lSJet...k/b5Zn3106VW0/s720/Tokyo%252520Tower.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GMWKK...AAAAAAHZw/0maDmVOm2EM/s720/Shinjuku1.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-reFoE.../SYCTkXAdoYQ/s720/Sumida%252520River.jpg

Darn, I didn't like them up perfectly. Guess I'll have to go back to Tokyo and take some more photos. :yes:

Here are the rest of my photos of the puzzle, including a familiar-looking skyscraper poster.

That's pretty interesting.
I just got a Toronto and New York puzzle. Will try to put it together but I have never been good with puzzles.

^^^^Same here, I just bought New York, my first 4D puzzle, in the store, and ordered the Tokyo one from Amazon!