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- The most succint phrasing doesn't always turn out ...
- Ascending?
- Stone and steel
- Mining museum and some general observations
- Birdwatching in the City
- Hazards of absentmindedness. Guess whose passport...
- Some local history
- Public sculpture beautifies cities
- The mall where I work is a healthy environment
- In Japan the police are your friends
- Before I forget
- Tokiwa-ike
- Tokiwa's suspension bridge
- Magical pond-type garden at Tokiwa
- Sculpture at Tokiwa Park
- My apartment building
- Work and the grocery store
- View from my front door
- Training done, first day of work done
- A short addendum
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Ah Ube-Kosan! Even if they got that Hristo bloke to wrap it up it would still be unbeautifiable. I'm a British bloke who lives about five minutes up theroad from you. I'm pretty big and have a shaved head - can't see the bald spot for the baldnesss. If you work Saturdays, you may have seen me with the wife and child after the latters swimming class.
ReplyDeleteYou did well to miss the zoo at Tokiwa park. Did you go up the tower of the mining museum though?
Mining museum? Tower? I had no idea there were such things. Towers and museums hold some interst for me, I'd like to hear more
ReplyDeleteneonvirus.com says... dude evan you get a lot of random guest posts, more than i ever did~! haha..
ReplyDelete:) just goes to highlight your genius.. anyway groovy new pics.. these from a digicam or your keitai? i enjoy both, but the shiny blob in factory mess one is grooovydelic.. peace!
At the east end of the lake there's the amusement park and the swan area. You can see an old steam locomotive and up a slight incline is the mining museum. The tower is pretty easy to see as it is painted red and white. Entry is free and there is a lift up to the observation platform. From up there you can see almost all there is to see of Ube. They have some free binocular type things for you to use too. All the info in the musuem is in Japanese but just looking at it can be informative. For example the paintings and drawings that show women working in the mines almost naked while the some men nearby are wearing clothes. Other images do show male workers wearing just loincloths too though. At the library you can find some history books that will show you plenty of photos of old Ube and you can see how drastically it has changed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the directions, I may head out there today (11/18), however owing to the fact that I just woke up, it may wait until next week.
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