We woke up from a half decent night's sleep. The first night is always difficult. We ate, drank our tea and were out before noon. We knew that there was a festival and parade today but not when or where it could be found. So we walked along Odori park towards the radio tower. We passed fountains and workers along the way. When we reached the large fountain we found the info booth. They were most helpful with an English language newsletter with info for the entire month. We were told that the parade would reach Odori park at 2 PM. We took off for the fish market to get lunch but passed all the floats on the way. So we inspected all the shrines and then they started off. We watched them head off and we also headed off for some lunch. After lunch we walked along a huge underground mall until we got to our pre-determined grocery. We got assorted items and took a taxi back.
Odori park is nicely wooded
A whale of a fountain
There were several little flower gardens
Also ample statues. The owl is holding court for the forest animals
An obelisk, but not one from Egypt
The grounds crew is hard at work
The iconic radio tower
These ladies are getting ready for the midsummers night revelries
The big fountain
Sapporo with a smile
Roasted corn sounded good
These crows are as mean as the illustration indicates
The fountain was big and the water flowed along the edge with a fast current
Time to stage some pictures
An even more elaborate garden
Lots of flowers to plant
A swimmer
This store was most tempting
Salmon roe
A fine picnic package, hairy crab, scallops, roe, and a small king crab
Large beast
Our lunch spot
Bloomers are coming back
How do you measure up to this fish?
So many plushies on this girl's purse
A tuna sampler
Two kinds of salmon
Shellfisishlisious, we had
For the kids this was a do-it-yourself sushi kit
Life sized amine character
Cats!
Cat sushi
Guitar heaven
So many styles
Price ranges varied
In the underground mall
This runs a mile or two and connects the major underground stations
Hello kitty
Potato chips flavored like salmon or salmon chips flavored like salmon
A public service announcement, don't walk and text
We popped out to the street level where it had turned a bit colder
It has been 3 years and 11 days since we began our Migration
