Shinjuku Twin Towers Dusk Countdown Timer

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building has two towers and a gap between them, and from this angle at dusk it looks like a single structure that has been split down the middle and left standing. It is the tallest thing in Shinjuku and it is not even the tallest thing in Tokyo anymore, which tells you something about this city's appetite. I was high up in a neighbouring tower with my forehead almost against the glass, and the whole basin below was filling with lights, the streets glowing orange and white, the expressways lit like rivers, the horizon still holding a thin line of sunset pink under the clouds. There is a park down to the left, a dark patch in all that electricity, and a highway curving past it in a loop. Tokyo does not have a skyline in the way other cities do. It has a horizon that goes on forever in every direction, low and dense and glittering, and the towers are just the places where it decided to stand up for a minute. I stayed until the last of the pink was gone and the towers had faded into the general glow, then went to find something to eat.