Originally Posted by Q Shoe Guy

I also wanted to add that Tokyo is hotter than it has ever been. The pre-disposition is to cut/mow down greenery that gets in the way of development. They will start cutting down the trees in the Gaien area in August. When the redevelopment of the public green areas is complete they will have cut down 3,000 mature canopy type of trees. The public tennis courts and playing fields will be replaced by 2 mixed use towers , a hotel , an 80,000 seat baseball stadium and an indoor mixed use rugby stadium with 15,000 seats. All this will be built along side a mostly un-used olympic stadium of which the pine tree'd forested grounds were concreted over.