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Originally uploaded by nofrills.
No idea why this is so wretched (view large to see how), you can't kick it or whatever because the plate is not at your foot -- it's like 140 cm high.
a tokyo photolog (my flickr archive, and occasional rant and rave: I have a free flickr acount, and want to keep the pics I have uploaded.)

I bought some vegetables, coffee, biscuits etc at a local supermarket. The clerk was totally amused when she told me the total sum.

An open space which has six strict rules. (See notes.)
Tokyo, Japan.

No photoshopping. Real colour.
Recently I read a fake news on a Tokyo-based English magazine.
It goes:
The Last Piece of Ground Found in Japan! -- And Covered with Concrete Immediately
In the (fake) news, the Minister of Land Development (or something) says, "I am delighted to announce that now the land of Japan is 100 per cent covered."
Sick joke for a Tokyo resident.

The third cherry tree I saw today.
When I went out of my house, the sky was clear and blue. But in five minutes, you see what happened. (This is not a black-and-white picture.)
And you know you can't avoid power lines in Tokyo sky. (^^)

I've been away for a while and am back with the cherry blossom.
This tree is not in full bloom yet. Maybe in two or three days.
Cherry tree by Hokusai:
http://www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp/kokuhoukan/ujiie-40.html
Last year:
http://whatiseehere.blogspot.com/2005_04_03_whatiseehere_archive.html
http://whatiseehere.blogspot.com/2005_04_10_whatiseehere_archive.html

Last year, different place:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofrills/8267818/

Last year, different place:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofrills/8267818/

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An old wooden wall of an apparently abandoned house, which seems to be sixty years old or so.
Tokyo, Japan. (I was amazed to find this in the middle of an ordinary residential area.)

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I was looking at some images left on my camera, and found this.
Rotated image.

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Sazanka (see this page for detailed information) in the snow.
In a front yard of a block of flats. Tokyo, Japan.
22 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.
From archive (On a sunny day, February 2005):


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Sazanka (see this page for detailed information) in the snow.
On the previous day. we had the first snowfall here in Tokyo. Some of the snow on the bush had gone, and this is the only flower I found that was alive and clearly seen as a flower in a front yard of a block of flats.
22 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sazanka (see this page for detailed information) in the snow.
On the previous day. we had the first snowfall here in Tokyo. Some of the snow on the bush had gone, and this is the only flower I found that was alive and clearly seen as a flower in a front yard of a block of flats.
22 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sazanka (see this page for detailed information) in the snow.
22 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

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22 January 2006, Tokyo (in my neighbourhood).

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Spring is still two months ahead, but they are preparing for it.
22 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

I was scared while taking this picture.
Taken on 22 January 2006, Tokyo.

Walking through a typical, quiet Tokyo residential area.
Picture taken on 22 January 2006.

Another "禁止 (no parking, no littering, etc)" sign found in my area. This one is for "No unauthorised parking in front of the gate!"

An old apartment, seemingly abandoned, in a part of Tokyo, Japan. This way of piping is now quite rare.
January 2006, Tokyo.

Looking through my photostream, I've just come to think there's a elephant in here. (See note.)
22 January 2006, Tokyo.

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Macro close-up of this one.
Sunday 22 January 2006, Tokyo.