What you'll find on Storybook Days

The Home page displays all my musings on life in Japan and a few other things (baseball and children's books are distinct possibilities). For highlights only: "A Day in the Life (edited)." "Tabemono (Food)" is exactly that. "Big in Japan" is my completely biased and oversimplified list of what is popular in Japan, and "Kimono Count" is a day-by-day record of the people I see in traditional dress. "Editor's Delight" catalogs the unintentionally amusing and apparently quite complicated world of Japanese-English translation. "Uncle Tucker" tracks our sightings of a certain cat following us around Japan.
Showing posts with label Yushima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yushima. Show all posts

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Where Are You Going?

Map from The Japan Times

What is it like, you ask?  Take a walk with me around our 'hood (Yushima) in our borough (Bunkyo) of our city (Tokyo)...


Strolling music courtesy of The Dave Matthews Band live in Central Park:

Home 

Our rooms without much view:



Worldview


Yushima Tenjin (Shinto Shrine)
Buddhist tea shop at the temple...some tea with your Tao.


Taro


How to have a catch (or, "catch ball" as they say in Japan) when you don't have a yard.




 

Concrete Jungle







Parks and Recreation




If you build it (and fence it off), they will (eventually) come...




Market Economy in a Café Society












Hustle and Bustle








Sacred and Mundane






Make a wish

Buy a fortune from a shrine, but if it is not what you hoped for, tie it here and let the wind blow the misfortune away.

Even in Japan, all roads lead to

laundry.