This is a telephoto shot from the same position as the last picture I posted yesterday. In the foreground is the truck garden and then a row of trees a shrubs that hide the river. The bank is on the opposite side. At the top of the bank there is a small play ground but it is hard to see. My 'mansion' is on the second floor on the extreme right of the right hand building. If you look carefully, you can see our laundry.
This is the view looking west along the river which is hidden on the right. It passes very close to the front (actually it is the back, the front is on the road) of the building on the far right. The bridge in the distance is the one that I must cross to get back to my side of the river. This bridge carries the road between Izumi Chuo and Yaotome.
Japan is small, about the area of California, I believe, so land is hard to come by and almost all of the flat land is in use. Here someone is farming around the base of the tower that supports the high tension electric lines.
The dark gray roof, just right of center, and the dark brown roof to the left are the two buildings in the shrine complex that I have shown before. It is between my apartment and the bridge to Yaotome. If you look carefully, you can see the torii at the entrance. A torii is a structure consisting of two vertical columns and two horizontal pieces at the top. They are found at the entrance to Shinto shrines.
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