More from around the neighborhood

 This is the back of the grade school. The nearest building is the gym and the classrooms are in the next building. If you walk down the sidewalk, you can see into the first floor library.

 This is a staircase leading from the street level to the the pedestrian level at Izumi Chuo. The walkway leads from the bus terminal passed a bicycle parking area to the entrance to the supermarket in the Ito Yokado department store.

 This is near my home but out on the main street. The store in back, the one with the purple sign, sells various pieces of equipment that are used in Buddhist ceremonies as well as altar for the home. Many (most?) Japanese have an altar in the home where there is a black and white picture of a relative who died. They family places food and drink on the altar and then rings a bell and burns incense.

 This is the area in front of my condo. All the police buildings have been removed and they are now shifting the dirt around and flattening it all out.

This shows how they are putting a slope between the surface and the road level. The wooden structure marks the level for the flat area and the slope that they will build. The grade school is in the distance on the left. The gray building on the right is a place where children can go for monitored play.