A Nice Long Run in West Tokyo

I could go for a long run on Saturday.  It was a beautiful winter day for a run.

Musashino Chuo Park.

Sengawa Aqueduct.

A tennis club.

A local elementary school.

Seibu Yagisawa Station.

Seibu Line train.

Higashi Fushimi Park.

A long slide.

Higashi Fushimi Shrine.

Musashi Seki Park.

Musashi Seki Shotengai.

Musashi Seki Station.

A golf driving range.

A trail was closed due to trees falling.

Sankakuhiroba Park.

Parks and Arts? in Nagoya

This morning, I had a nice run in Nagoya.  Temperature was 1 deg. C when I started.

The Moon was still bright when I started running.

Nagoya City Science Museum by Shirakawa Park.

An entrance to Osu Shopping District.

A train was moving towards Nagoya Station.

A playground area of Tsurumai Park.

A nice pond of the park.

Another pond in the park.

The base of where a statue of Kato Takaaki used to be.  Unfortunately, the metal was contributed to the war efforts in 1944.

A graffiti.

A Spanish restaurant.

Nagoya Tower.

Nice Run on Saturday

I had a nice run with my wife to Zenpukuji Park area.

A nice stream was recently restored at the park.

A nice poster painted by elementary school students.

The main building of Igusa Hachiman Shrine.

An Ema picture of the Japanese Zodiac Animal of the Year.

Back at the park - Children at play. 

Rainy Morning Run in Okinawa

I had a run in Naha, Okinawa this morning.  It rained the entire time.  I got completely soaked, but since it was much warmer than Tokyo, it was not too bad.

Because Okinawa is located quite a bit west of Tokyo (about 12 degrees in longitude), it was still pretty dark at 6:30 am.

Cool art on a building close from my hotel.

The elevated expressway along the harbor seen from Wakasa Seaside Park.

Two big dragon monuments facing the sea to welcome visitors.

Naminoue-Gu (Above the Wave Shrine).

A cruise ship.

Okinawa Gokoku Jinja Shrine.

Many Ema with people's wishes written.

 A statue of an injured soldier and his wife stands by the entrance of the shrine - a reminder of the sad past.

A field behind the shrine was flooded.

Pretty colorful plants.

Shisa on top a roof.

An souvenir store on Kokusai Dori.

Okinawa Prefectural Government Building.

Hilly Runs in Kawazu.

My family had a nice 3-day weekend trip to Kawazu, Shizuoka.  The area is famous for cherry blossom that comes early every spring.  I could put in 2 nice morning runs.  We had a lot of ups and downs for the area was very hilly - or even mountainous.

Yesterday morning, I could run with my wife and son from our hotel to the beach.

Kawazu Bagatelle Park entrance.

Rapeseeds were planted along Kawazu River.

A small storage building of the local football team.

Statues of the main characters of The Dancing Girl of Izu - a novel by a Nobel Prize winner - Kawabata Yasunari by Kawazu Station.

Pictures of the making of the 1963 movie based on the novel.

A Pacific Ocean beach close from the station.

A Dondo-yaki ceremony setting by Kawazu River.

Buntan fruits by our hotel.

This morning, my son and ran into the woods - diverted from paved roads.  This turned out quite interesting.

Something must have happened to this road - not usable with motorized vehicles.

A tree is infested by mushrooms.

We saw a herd of deer in this area.

The ocean could be seen on the other side of a hill.

Wind turbines and solar panels were set up at the top of the mountain.

A statue of a family of Kappa - imaginative creature by a local temple.

A plum tree at our hotel already had some flowers.