More from the park

 This really surprised me. Two women in their early teens were fishing. I have never seen this before in Japan and only a few times in the US.

 A crack across the path reminded me that we had a couple of large earthquakes.

 In addition to the siding sliding toward the river (you can see the large space this has created on the lower left) there was a lot of dead plants that had obviously been brought down from upstream after the last heavy rain.

 Summer is almost here, so much of the riverside walkway is becoming overgrown. It will stay that way until mid-summer when they will cut all the of vegetation along the side of the river. That is, they will cut it if there is enough money in the city budget. The triple disaster (quake, quake, tsunami) has caused the government to spend a huge amount of money on repairs so somethings will probably not be done this year.

 Once passed the overgrown area, the rest of the riverside walkway was very pleasant to stroll along.

This is the house where the wall collapsed and the major rebuilding project is nearing completion. Actually both of the houses are replacing the walls between their property and the top of the levee. They are even filling in the empty space that this will leave. I will have more pictures of this later.