Walking between Osaki and Takanawa Gateway

Continuing on with my Yamanote line walk series, this time we walked between Osaki and Takanawa Gateway station. Takanawa Gateway is the first new station on the Yamanote line in 49 years, so I had been curious to see what all the fuss was about. Along the way we would pass Shinagawa station, which had a coffee shop I wanted to check out. We did this walk on one of the days of Golden Week, which is one of Japan’s busiest holiday periods. We had considered going somewhere in Japan (maybe camping) but it becomes hard even to get a campsite reservation, as everyone heads out of Tokyo to do some domestic travel, or heads back to their hometowns to visit their relatives. So we decided to take it very low-key this year and stay home. Osaki station is a fairly quiet one, at least on a public holiday. I did see one coffee roastery that caught my eye, but unfortunately it was closed due to Golden Week (drats). Will have to come back another time so Osaki can redeem itself. Moving on, we…