A BOUQUET OF GINKGO LEAVES.

It takes about 20 minutes from our house to Tokyo University by subway.

Yasuda Lecture Hall.

Tokyo university is the highest level one in Japan.

There is a Ginkgo tree-lined road in this campus.

There is a special kind of ginkgo tree near the road.

You can find this kind of a leaf with 1% of probability from this tree.

Collecting the leaves, I could make a bouquet of the ginkgo leaves.

This bouquet looks like a bouquet of yellow roses.

There is a pond in this campus named Sanshiro-Ike.

The name came from the famous novel's title.

There is a red gate in this campus.

This gate was made by a feudal Lord for wedding memorial for the Lord and the shogun's daughter about 130 years ago.

Because this campus was   the former feudal lord's site.

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WITH A BLOGGING FRIEND AND HIS WIFE IN TOKYO.

My blogging friend and his wife came to Tokyo from Malaysia.

I guided the Imperial Palace with them.

A Stone Bridge. 正面石橋です。

Nijubashi Bridge.　二重橋です。

The Imperial Palace  in Tokyo is located at the former site of Edo-jo Castle, which was the castle of Tokugawa Shogun until the end of the Edo period.

Mr.Twilight Man and his spouse.

Sakurada-Tatumi-Yagura Turret. Tatumi means South West. 

桜田巽櫓です。　辰巳、すなわち、南西に面しています。

One of the typical stonework at the end of the stone fence.

　石積みの角は「算木積み」です。

Other kind of stonework.　横矢掛りです。

There was a grey heron at the moat.　アオサギです。

A swan was in the moat too.

There was a gate in this area.　「切込み接」（きりこみはぎ）です。

The Castle Tower Site.　天守台です。

There was a conflagration  in 1657. The Castle Tower was burn out. The Shogun and many officials insisted to rebuild the Castle Tower. But The half-brother of the Shogun insisted that it was the first consideration to let a city restore now.

His claim was accepted, and the castle tower was not rebuilt.

Kita-Hanebashi Gate.　北桔橋門（きたはねばしもん）です。

Hanebashi means a drawbridge. There was a drawbridge which was  in readiness for an emergency.

Going out the Imperial Palace,I guided them to a National Museum at Ueno.

And we departed there.

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HIKING TO MT.TAKATORIYAMA.

We went to a one day hiking to Mt.Takatoriyama.

Mt.Takatoriyama. This mountain was used as a quarry until about a hundred years ago.

鷹取山です。

some people would use these walls as  rock climbing areas.

ロッククライミングは禁止と看板が出てました。

We could find many flowers and berries.

Perennial morning glory.　宿根朝顔です。

A kind of chrysanthemum.　リウノウギクです。

Touch-Me-Not.　ホウセンカです。

サラシナショウマです。

A kind of Clematis.　センニンソウです。

The seeds.　種です。

コウヤボウキです。

Going through Buddha figure on a rock face.

磨崖仏です。

We could see Yokohama Land mark Tower.

LoquatS flowers.　枇杷の花です。

カラスザンショです。

マユミです。

シロダモです。

Kanazawa-Hakkei city.　金沢八景方面です。

A bell tower of  Jinmuji Temple.　神武寺の鐘つき台です。

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PINE TREE ISLANDS AND AUTUMN LEAVES IN NORTH EAST JAPAN.

Next day,we arrived at Matushima area in Miyagi prefecture.

次の日は松島に行きました。

The view from the hotel's room where we stayed.

ホテルの部屋からの光景です。

We got on a sightseeing boat from Matushima seashore.

There are many beautiful pine tree islands in Matushima bay.

仁王丸という観光船に乗りました。

この島が仁王島です。

Big Tsunami waves attacked this area too in 2011,but there were almost no damages here,

Many islands guarded this area.

Then we went to Entuji temple.

瑞巌寺の隣の円通院に行きました。

This temple's garden were covered with many kind of  autumn leaves. 

伊達政宗の嫡孫の菩提寺です。

This resting bench has a round window.

ここに丸窓がありました。

If a beautiful  woman would stand here, she would be seen more beautiful than usual.

ここで写真を撮ると、美人の人はより美しく写るそうです。

We came Matushima area via Zao mountain road named Zao Echo line.

松島に来る途中に通った、蔵王エコーラインです。

WE stopped the car by the road and took photos.

Sankai-no-Taki Falls.

三階の滝です。

Fudo Falls.

不動の滝です。

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