Merry christmas ！

All the best to you!

Train on the road

A train on Toei Arakawa line.
Small but nice .

Climbing

Mt.Iwafune-yama

One month left

There are many christmas trees you will see.
I just want to hope peaceful world.

Autumn color

Yellow is the typical color of autumn.
Although, it's very good to see some reds among many yellows in this season.

Old postbox

It's old type.
We have seen little of it lately 

a total eclipse of the moon

It began from around 6 pm,here.

A snail and a butterfly

Indian Fritillary.
Their habitation area used to be in temperate countries but you can find them here.
The caterpillars of this butterflies eat the flowers in many gardens.

Skunk cabbage

Precisely,this is not a skunk cabbage but a off-spring of a skunk cabbage (large one).
"Hime-zazen-so" is the Japanese name for this flower.
 Hime means "a princes. In this case, it stands for "little", I think.
"Zazen" is "zen-sitting" and "so" is a monk.
Totally, "a little zen monk sitting in a spathe" is the name for this flower.
This flower grows in wet area.
This web site has good information for "Skunk Cabbage".
.Skunk cabbage is really a strange name.

Tokyo toy show

Cool ?

"Project E5" is the Shinkansen Robot , transformed from a bullet train called Shinkansen of Japan Railway company(JR for short).
A subsidiary company of JR made this .

This "International Toy Show" was held at Tokyo Big Sight.

A local restaurant at old house

When you visit around Ome district, I want you to drop by this restaurant.

Home made Japanese noodles are served here.

Map is here.

Rikugien

Located in the central Tokyo and established in 1702.
It was established in the middle of Samurai period.
But nice to see this kind of a garden surrounded by many tall buildings in Tokyo.

Witch hazel

Chinese fringe flower or Witch hazel.

It's name came from , I think ,long thin petals.

SAKURA

Full marathon again

It was held under clear sky with warm air.
The course was along the river called ARAKAWA river to the Tokyo Sky Tree, 42.195 Km.
Approximately 17,000 people gathered to run.
So I went through the start gate 18 min behind the front runners.
The course was flat and easy to run ...... until 30 km.
After 30 km, my right calf muscles were getting weak and I felt pain there.
But I continued to run to the 35 km aid station with low speed.
After that another myself started to whisper "stop and walk,stop and walk".
Wow the bad time had came, I thought.
I needed to fight against another myself and the calf pain.
Last 2 km was worst, I had repeated to run and walk.
But finally ,I made it. I went through the goal gate with the time of 5 hours 34 minutes.
It was very hard for me to run the full marathon.

Next time ? Not soon but I will !

At a fish market

Nakaminato  fish  market .

3rd time snow

Snow scene

2nd snow

It's snowing again.

First snow

We have the first snow this year.

Plumtree

The flowers of a plumtree here have started blooming,suggesting the warm season is coming.