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Location Scouting Report #13: Palm Jumeirah and the Valley of Buildings

It's the final day of scouting.
Yesterday we had finished the last bit of the scouting we had planned to do.
Thus, today we split up into smaller groups and went off to collect material on places we each personally wanted to see.

Director Yuyama strongly requested they go gather material on Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Marina.
Very many people think of Palm Jumeirah when they think of Dubai.
It's an artifical archipelago designed to look like a geoglyph of a palm tree.



To get to Palm Jumeirah, we set off for Jumeirah Monorail, the first monorail ever built in the Middle East.
It currently runs a single track from Gateway Station, located at "the base of the palm", to Atlantis Adventure Station, located at "the top of the palm".
Apparently most people in Dubai tend to drive cars, so the monorail doesn't get all that much use.
Therefore, the scouting team almost got an entire empty car all to themselves and were able to station themselves at the very front of the first car to take photos from ringside seats.



As the monorail drove up the "trunk" of Palm Jumeirah, a view you simply can't get from maps or aerial photos spread out beyond the windows.
As we approached the end station, we could see the palace-like hotel "Atlantis, The Palm" come into view. The rail continued on as if dodging the hotel, eventually reaching the end station.



After we got off the monorail, we wandered through the streets of Palm Jumeirah, making our way through the perimeter to a location where we could see Dubai Marina on the opposite shore.
when viewed from the opposite shore like this, the marina is surrounded by skyscrapers, all sporting distinctive designs.
We were surprised to learn that each and every one of them is a luxury apartment complex as tall as Tokyo Tower.



Getting back to Palm Jumeirah, the archipelago is really large in scale.
It's impossible to capture the overall picture of it just from walking around in it, so we once again set off, this time in order to get a view of it from the Dubai Marina.

Our guide led us to the restaurant on the 52nd floor of the Marriott Harbor Hotel in Dubai Marina.
From here we could view Palm Jumeirah from afar, as well as get a top-down view of the marina!
This was the first time on this journey we got to view such futuristic yet inorganic skyscrapers from a location right in the middle of them.
"This is what I wanted to see", one of the graphic designers said with delight.
Maybe we'll have the battle between the legendary Pokémon take place here, then!?



The idea to view the area from a ship then hit us, and we boarded a water taxi to collect material on the Dubai Marina as we weaved down the canal.
As the ship passed under a big bridge, we exited this valley of buildings glittering in light of the sun.



When we finally reached the harbor, the day was almost over and evening was approaching.
With this, the overtime scouting came to an end.



We returned to our hotel again, where all the other staff members had returned from their individual productive days as well.

There's only 9 days left until the movie premieres! The next report will be the final part.

Source: http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/pokemovie_ch/?p=1236