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    No. 125 Wedding Planning in Japan 1 min read

    Lanterns, Then Leaves: A Tokyo Couple Photoshoot in Shinjuku

    Smiling, a couple walk hand in hand past glowing red lanterns in Omoide Yokocho during a Tokyo couple photoshoot.

    “Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.” ~ Japanese Proverb

    Most people only ever see Shinjuku at a run. Its station is the busiest in the world, and the streets around it move accordingly. A Tokyo couple photoshoot here is a chance to slow the city down long enough to see both of its faces in a single walk.

    The first face is loud. Crossings that fill and empty on the signal. Taxis in the old livery. And Omoide Yokocho, the lantern alley beside the tracks that grew out of a black market after the war and has never quite agreed to modernise: yakitori smoke, counters the width of a hallway, regulars who have seen it all.

    The second is a Tokyo park in Shinjuku in late May, all new green. Japanese has a word for it, shinryoku, the fresh leaves of early summer before the rains arrive. Plane trees, towering conifers, azaleas still out by the pond, and the station only minutes away, completely out of earshot.

    We like a session that holds both. Japan is never just scenery for the two of you. It’s where part of your story happened, and the frames should feel like it.

     

    A couple kiss on a street rail as a red Tokyo taxi passes beneath a giant woodblock print style mural in Shinjuku. Sitting on a street rail in Shinjuku, a couple lean together by a bus stop and a bold billboard on their Tokyo couple photoshoot. A couple share a kiss beneath red yakitori lanterns and sunflowers in Omoide Yokocho, the old lantern alley of Shinjuku. Smiling, a couple walk hand in hand past glowing red lanterns in Omoide Yokocho during a Tokyo couple photoshoot. In black and white, a couple embrace in a narrow doorway of Omoide Yokocho as locals walk past them in Shinjuku. Foreheads touching, a couple pause beneath a glowing yakitori lantern in the lantern alley of Shinjuku in Tokyo. A couple embrace in the middle of Omoide Yokocho, red lanterns and sunflowers overhead, on a Tokyo couple photoshoot. Seen from a dark passage, a couple kiss in a narrow Shinjuku alley in black and white, their reflection caught in the glass. Blurred commuters stream past as a couple stand still together in the crowd on a busy Shinjuku street in Tokyo. A low angle across a zebra crossing toward a couple standing beneath the green Shinjuku railway bridge in Tokyo. A classic yellow Tokyo taxi slides past as a couple kiss among pedestrians outside a busy Shinjuku shopfront. In black and white, a couple walk hand in hand across a Shinjuku crossing among Tokyo commuters, framed by a passing shoulder. A couple share a quiet look as Tokyo pedestrians pass a colourful Shinjuku shopfront during their couple photoshoot. A black and white street frame of a couple kissing on a busy Shinjuku pavement as Tokyo pedestrians walk around them. In black and white, a couple stand close at the Shinjuku Nishiguchi subway entrance, their reflection in the polished wall. A couple climb the stairs out of Shinjuku Nishiguchi subway station into the city, seen from street level in black and white. In black and white, a couple kiss by a Shinjuku crossing as a traveller pulls a suitcase past beneath the railway bridge. Tokyo taxis wait at a Shinjuku crossing as a couple stand arm in arm, smiling, during their Tokyo couple photoshoot. A couple embrace beside a stone lantern on a still pond in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku, their reflection clear in the water. A four frame collage of a couple beside a stone lantern in a Shinjuku park: an embrace, linked hands and quiet close ups. A couple sit on the rail of a small wooden bridge over a pond in a green Tokyo park in Shinjuku in early summer. Laughing together, a couple sit on an old wooden bridge in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku during their couple photoshoot. Framed by white hydrangea blossoms, he kisses her forehead beneath an old tree in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. A couple kiss under a gnarled old tree, white oakleaf hydrangea in the foreground, in a Tokyo park in early summer. A painter works at his easel on a tree lined path as a couple walk in the distance, in black and white, in a Shinjuku park. A couple kiss beneath a green canopy of plane trees in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku in the fresh leaves of early summer. Smiling, a couple walk arm in arm along an avenue of plane trees in a Shinjuku park during their Tokyo couple photoshoot. She rests her head on his shoulder, her engagement ring on show, on a tree lined path in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. Seen through fresh green leaves, a couple sit close together on a wooden bench in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. Under a canopy of fresh green leaves, a couple sit together on a park bench in Shinjuku on their Tokyo couple photoshoot. Peeking through fresh green leaves, a couple smile cheek to cheek in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku in early summer. Two portraits side by side in a Shinjuku park, she in olive green and he laughing in a linen shirt among tall trees. A couple stand small among towering conifers and green undergrowth in a quiet wooded corner of a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. Laughing, a couple stand among tall trees and green undergrowth in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku during their couple photoshoot. A couple stand close among the trees, half hidden by soft green leaves, in a wooded corner of a Shinjuku park in Tokyo. A couple share a quiet moment among tall trunks and white flowering shrubs in a wooded Tokyo park in Shinjuku. A couple kiss among tall trees, framed by soft green foliage, during a Tokyo couple photoshoot in the early summer. A couple embrace deep among towering conifers, softened by green leaves in the foreground, in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. Sitting by a pond under a leaning tree, a couple smile toward the camera in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku in early summer. A couple kiss on a wooden footbridge over a pond, framed by fresh green trees, in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku. A couple stand on a small bridge among pink azaleas, with a Shinjuku skyscraper rising above the trees of a Tokyo park. Laughing, she rides on his back across the lawn of a Tokyo park in Shinjuku, a joyful end to their couple photoshoot. A piggyback and two big smiles in a green Tokyo park in Shinjuku, with a city tower just visible behind the trees.
     

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    37 Frames

    37 Frames is a wedding planning, photography and film studio in Tokyo, founded by Tracey Taylor and Dee Green. The studio plans weddings and elopements across Japan and around the world. Its weddings have appeared in Vogue and The New York Times.

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    1. Love the city shots of the couple but the green shades of the gardens is a beautiful backdrop for their stunning photos.

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