Walking back from the doctor's

 I need to go to the doctor's once a month to get my high blood pressure medicine. My wife used to drive me when we had a car, but now we take the bus and then walk home. It is just a little over four kilometers.

This picture was taken in the housing area in which the doctor has his office. There reason we go there is that we used to live here and this doctor was closest. We discovered that we liked him so we still go there, even though there are many doctors closer to our apartment. The thing to notice in this picture is the crosswalk (zebra crossing). It is a t-intersection but you can only legally cross in one direction. Sendai is starting to put this sort of thing in many intersection. They claim it is safer but I do not see how.

 We decided that, since we were later than usual, we would stop for lunch. This is the remains of our yakiniku meal [yaki means fried, grilled, or burnt, and niku is meat]. The food comes to the table raw but they bring a charcoal grill and you cook for yourself. I had chicken. It was delicious.

 This is the entrance to the restaurant. Immediately inside is a garden. The seats are behind it.

This was rather unusual. These are automatic sales, each with its own little building. What is surprising is the combination. The blue place sells rice and the red one is a laundromat. A sort of weird combination. All I could think of was using the laundromat to wash the rice, something that you always do when cooking Japanese rice.