Here and there again

 I got to the Asahigaoka bus depot early so I walked up the street a ways to see if they had done any work on this damage. They had. The blue tarp was now held in place by long strips of wood. It looks the the actual repair work will not be done for a long time. The large sign in the center is an ad for a doctor whose office is just around the corner.

 My grandson Tsubasa. He is two now but when we go a long way he rides at least part of the way. He usually falls asleep.

 Sendai city is building a new east-west subway line and this is part or the construction at Sendai Station.

 This is the entrance to a parking area. The price is 50 yen for 10 minutes during the day or 20 minutes during the late night. The yellow things are a ticket dispenser and the machine for collecting the money. Most small parking lots like this are completely mechanized, not a human in sight. Also whenever a building is torn down and a new one build, during the time between the destruction of the first building and the beginning of work on the new one, the area is paved and used as a pay parking lot.

 This is in front of a hanko store, a store that makes the name stamps that Japanese use in place of signatures. The character looks like the main character from a long running TV program. He makes the bad guys give up when he shows his stamp-like object indicating that he represents the emperor.

This is typical of downtown Sendai. Large many-storied concrete buildings with one or two story wooden buildings sprinkled around in between.