We woke to rain and so we decided to take a taxi to the Tokyo Station. there was ample time to spare once we reached the station so we stood up on the platform and watched all of humanity come and go. The train trip was only an hour and a half and we hardly had time to relax when it was time to get out, get into a taxi and head to the Ibis hotel. It is not the most luxurious of rooms but it is passible. We needed to walk out the kinks so we headed out to the old preserved houses. When the Nagoya Castle was built in the 1610 they moved the entire town of Kiyosu, 7 km to this site. The abrupt migration was called the Kiyosu-goshi. All of these buildings were destroyed in a fire in 1700 but the buildings from that era survive to this day. We continued walking and found a covered shopping arcade and another temple. Keeping up the walking we found ourselves on the way to the Sky Promenade. This is a 47th floor observation deck that is open at the top so it was rather pleasant.
Track #18 on our way to Nagoya
First the cleaning crew must do their jobs
An Owl in the lobby of the wrong Hotel
This si the decor of our hotel
Nagano has some delightful manhole covers
We are close to the fish markets
Five scenes from around town
A water strider on the covers that were in the street
Great streetlights
Nagoya Castle
A fancy bridge
A tree of lights
Fancy light fixture on the bridge
The arrows show the direction of the tourist trail
Protection
Mossy stone lantern
Prayer Flags
A delicate flower
Very detailed structure on the roof
Another tourist indicator in the street
Many of the housed have flower gardens
A waterfall walkway, large boots optional
We came upon a large covered shopping arcade
Half price wine!
Another shrine, these look like birdhouses
A portable shrine for carrying through the streets
Water is always available at a shrine
Another block of covered street
Beautiful tree!
A very large temple grounds
Fancy interior of the temple
My, my, my, what is up with this sheep?
One street had a sculpture on each corner
The second one
This cover was more geometric
The Shachihoko is a mythical fish that can control the rain and store water
This one is rather large
A large stuffed cat
A big spider, yikes
A crossing at a school with flags in buckets. Are the flags for the kids to grab?
The smallest shrine even. It is just a bit bigger than a vending machine
Lucky eights
Promenade
We took a ride up to the 47th floor observation promenade
A great day for it!
The elevator also had a window
A very nice building
Tearing down a building from the inside
Off to the port area and the sea
The third largest city in Japan and it shows
Our Hotel is grey with a green sign
The castle off in the distance
A bit disorienting
The promenade is along all four sides of the building
Sky Promenade
Long set of stairs
Groovy!
Expensive $500K to $1.5M
Crabs and eels
More groovyness
Nice lamps!
