This is in front of the newest 'mansion' along the river. These concrete blocks were horizontal before the earthquake. Also we talked to someone who lives in the building and she said that the outside looks find, but that inside walls are cracked. They remain living in the building anyway.
This is a two-story apartment house with six apartments. You can see that panels have dropped from the eaves and the windows on the first floor have fallen out of their frames.
This is the road next to the bridge to Yaotome. A section of the middle of the road has sunk a number of centimeters and cracked the road. I have been by since, and found that the pavement around the cracks is starting to break up.
This is the remains of a lamp marking the entrance to a large Shinto shrine near our home.
In all the death and destruction in this area, I looked down at one point and discovered the first flowers of the year.
Next to the shrine there is a Buddhist temple with a graveyard. Most of the graves were damaged. In Japan the dead are cremated so there are no actual bodies here, maybe some ashes but no bodies. Also the actual structure is usual for families, not individuals.
I walked over to the shrine to pay my respects but I could not enter. The stone lamps and sculptures were on the ground and the staff had roped the area off as being dangerous. This is the shrine where my granddaughter was taken as a new born. One of my earlier posts here describes this ceremony.
Looking into the shrine grounds from the street. The shrine itself and the surrounding buildings seem to be okay, but all of the stonework is on the ground.
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