Here and There Japan

That used to be a grove of trees. It was owned by a nursery. The trees were moved. The land was cleared and a small "street" was ...

someone from an unknown location is spending a lot of time here. Let me know what you think.

This is an ad for rose ice cream. The straw ring was used to hold sticks of rice cakes around a charcoal fire.

The field behind out house is now planted in potatoes. This picture was taken a day or two ago when it was sunny.

Those are pine needles on the ground at Nogawa Park. . Those are roots coming up out of the ground.

A drugstore and its parking lot were built near this old house. Fortunately, they didn't tear up the pink roses to put the parking sign...

A picture of a chopstick cover has already been posted. But this cover is different. It has a ledge so that you can do this: This is very...

Once in a while, there are small gifts given with drinks. This is a bottle of cold unsweetened tea. The cold case at Ministop was full of d...

The dandelions are in bloom, too. Click on the picture to enlarge it. I'm not sure why the green net is draped around this garden. It h...

Irises are in bloom. There are a lot of them this year in gardens, in fields, and along the street. And here on the side of a small road a...

A bomb was found down the road from us. It was left from the U.S. bombing of Tokyo in WWII. Posters like this one have been in stations alo...

There was a frog in our garden this morning. It was the first frog I have seen--in our garden! His leg looked injured. I hope he stays here...

There is another new style of benches in stations. Our neighborhood station only has a poster of them.

The station near the American School got new benches. There are even small tables between some of the seats. Very unusual, but homey.

Artists can be found painting in parks and gardens. This one was quite unusual. That is, the way he was dressed was unusual. He had an ol...

These two signs on this store window advertise Mother's Day. The red figure on the smaller sign is made from the kanji for "mothe...

This year, we went to Showa Kinen Koen earlier in the day so that Little Brother could bounce. We went too late in the day last year. This...

There were lots of people in the poppy fields at Showa Kinen Koen . Click on the picture to enlarge it. There were lots of people in the w...