Gundam statue at Tokyo train station

Over at BB Gadgets, Joel has word of a Gundam statue guarding a train station in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
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[#1 posted by razordaze, March 24, 2008 12:06 PM]

If they keep this up, just imagine what the resulting post-apocalyptic future's archaeologists will think...

Centuries of research later, finding out that they weren't THAT advanced, they just had a thing for mecha. Seriously embarrassing.

[#2 posted by Crunchbird, March 24, 2008 12:33 PM]

There's a statue a lot like this placed on a public street in Rotterdam, Holland as well. I don't know that it was actually Gundam, but it was definitely a Japanese-anime-origin battlesuit of some kind. I tried to get a picture of it when I was there, but it was raining hard and my camera couldn't capture it well from the distance I needed to stay away to keep dry. I've never been able to Google up other evidence of it, but maybe a Dutch Boinger can corroborate . . .

[#3 posted by Agent 86, March 24, 2008 1:45 PM]

Now THIS is art!

[#4 posted by dcdomain, March 24, 2008 5:39 PM]

Nuts, I was just in that area the last two days. Navigating around the station is a PITA. Guess I'll look for it the next time I need to take a train from there. Wouldn't dream of going back to Shinjuku just to get a photo with the Gundam.

Any idea where exactly it is? Doesn't look like the main station in Shinjuku, might be one of the other lines?

[#5 posted by braincelljupiter, March 24, 2008 6:57 PM]

The statue is on the Seibu-Shinjuku train line, but it's not in Shinjuku. It's at Kami-Igusa Station in Suginami-ku, Tokyo.

[#6 posted by dcdomain, March 25, 2008 1:47 AM]

Ah okay that explains the lack of tall buildings in the photo. Thanks Braincelljupiter!