In downtown Sendai

 This shows that same newly constructed terraces in the background and some more blue tarps covering cracks in the bank of the stream.

 A typical street in Sendai. The thing that always impresses me is how many power and telephone lines there are. I am sure that I have mentioned it before, but in Japan these lines are always above ground. If they were below ground find breaks and repairing them after an earthquake would be a daunting task. Above ground any problems are easy to locate and then to fix.

 The frame in the middle holds six fish that have been gutted and are now drying. They will be sold later in the store in the white building. One thing about drying fish, it stinks.

 An old wooden house surrounded by concrete high rises.

 This building actually contains a functioning store, a fish market.

I was fascinated by the pattern made by the stairs, a fire escape, in this building