Walking home from Miyagi Gakuin University

 The main roads in this area are all relatively new and are four or six lanes wide with a tree-lined divider in the middle. Also the sidewalks are very wide.

 I am not sure exactly what this building is. Shortly after the disaster, it was a disaster coordination center. Now it seems to be some sort of center for children.

 The large building with the Itokin sign on the roof used to contain a furniture store and probably apartments on the upper floors. Now it is empty because of damage, but the store had already closed before March. It was one of the casualties of the economic condition.

 Up close you can see all the cracks under the netting. It looks like the walls between the windows were particularly weak.

 I crossed the street at the intersection in front of the building and stopped at the restroom in a small park. This is typical. It has one a couple of stalls for use by both men and women and three urinals against the opposite wall. If you look carefully, you can see one of the urinals through the door. I guess the point is that since there will be both males and females inside there is no need to hide them.

A couple of hundred meters up the road I found this nice house. I would bet that the house is not really made of bricks. It must just be a brick facing over a reinforced concrete wall. Most brick house would have fallen during the various quakes.