With the library closed from today until the new year, there was only place to go...Kanda. Kanda is a part of town where all the old bookshops are, side-by-side. A bibliophile's heaven as it were. So many books, so little room to take home on the plane...oh well, careful selection.
In the end, I came across about four older books on whaling which will be interesting, they predate the toughest of the recent whaling wars, a book on Japanese thought and one on feminist history. I could have bought so many more but...
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| Today's haul |
On the way back home, I took the long walk back to a station past Korakuen, a theme park in Tokyo, next to Tokyo Dome (with its own hotel), home of my baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants. I thought the perfect bluesky day might make a bit of a nice backdrop.
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| One of the rides... |
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| Ride, with hotel |
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| Not South Bank (but we could add a roller coaster...) |
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| Setting sun in the tree tops in Itabashi |
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| Now there's something you don't often see... |
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| A local sculpture 'ohanashi ga joozu', 'you can talk...' ... |
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| Detail, or selfie-spot |
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| You can almost touch the moon |
Then it was back home, to oden for dinner and plans for tomorrow...
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm, 3.11pm, 3.14pm, 3.15pm, 4.15-4.20pm]
