More from the neighborhood around Tohoku Gakuin U, part 2

 At the next intersection, I noticed that the side street was a very good example of how telephone and electric wires fill the city skies in Japan. The lines are generally hung from poles so that they can be quickly and easily repaired after an earthquake. If they are underground, it is hard to find the actual location of breaks in the line and repairs entails a lot of time consuming and expensive digging.

 I reached a place where I had a better view of the building with the solar panels. It turned out to be a school. The building next to the street was the gym and in the windows they had the usual Ganbaro Tohoku sign in the windows.

I passed a small museum that is part of the university. It was closed for repairs of the earthquake damage. In the parking lot next to the sidewalk they had set up a tent and some of the furniture and other old stuff from the exhibits was left here, along with some blue tarps and some bags of trash.

At the next intersection, the buildings on both the left and the right were undergoing reconstruction and repairs.

I turned the corner and went down a side street. The blue sign surprised me. It is in front of a Japanese language school. It must cater to the foreign students who attend, or want to attend, the university.

This is the entrance to the school. From the number of bicycles, it seems like they have a fairly good enrollment. Notice the pair of lion statues flanking the way in.