Sunday, November 12, 2006

One-day walking trip

Ayako and I bought a book for doing one-day walking trips in the prefectures near ours. We did one on Sunday, about 40 minutes outside Hamamatsu.
We were mainly walking along an old narrow road with many old houses and stores similar to the ones we say one week ago. We also saw a few shrines and temples:
I took a picture of the manhole cover in this town since it had a nice design on it. Actually, every town in Japan has a special design on their manhole covers, but this town's was extra nice:
Part of the road was a natural treasure since it was lined with pine trees on either side:
There were even some nice signs explaining the cultural value of some of the areas including small pictures done by a famous Edo period Japanese artist, Hiroshige:
We also stopped at a traditional tea house where we had matcha tea and nice sweets:
Overall, a very nice but windy walk.

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