My Nephew My Toy

Walking in Nagoya - Sakae Area

Friendly sign

To Los Angeles, 9000+km to go. Nice.

Common street scene

Election posters for House of Councilors

No graffiti on them or you'll get busted.

Tennis school

It says...

Ferris wheel in the mid city

Nagoya Castle Cache Hunt

My first cache in Japan! A big bison tube found in the fence rail by the outer moat of Nagoya castle.

A lot of carps, warterfowls, and turtles.

Kishimen

Nagoya's featured noodle. It is known for its flat noodle in dark soy-source and bonito extract soup.

Sentry Tower

The inner moat is empty and deer live there. They are twice bigger than those you can see in California.

Nagoya Castle West View

Traditional Water Fountain

"Shiyakusho-mae" (city hall front) subway station

Bum Castle (aka blue vinyl mansion)

Atsuta Jingu

Atsuta Jingu (shrine). It is supposed to be the second most important shrine and located here in Nagoya. The most important one is just called Jingu and it is in Ise.

Fortune

You put the fortune paper tie on this thing. If you get a good one, you put it here so it comes true. If you get a bad one, you put it here so it won't happen.

Cicada

I found a cicada hatchling struggling on the ground due to mis-emerging from its shell during my midnight walk.

So weak but there still was little hope. I put him on a window net in my room so he can expand his wings.

20 mins later.

1 and half hours later. The body color is getting darker.

3 hours later. Darker and darker.

About 11 hours later. Right before the release. Bye bye lucky boy.

Japanese Beetle

　The first emergence of this year.

Feeding beelte jelly.

Very small. Normal ones are twice as big as this guy.

Guam

About 3 hours of flight from Japan. A few minutes before landing.

A view from the room I stayed. High tide.

A lot of beetles.

Different kind. Both are common in Japan too.

Low tide. You can observe many kinds of small animals.

Stucked in a tide pool

We call this kind of starfish "spider starfish" in Japan. They're very mobile.

A blue starfish

You can find several kinds of crabs.

Baby coral in a tide pool

A lot of sea cucumbers

Another sea cucumber

Imperial Japanese Cannon?

A native batterfly

Something comes out when it's shaked. It is also observed when they fly.

Wings. The picture is not renderred well but they're very beutiful.

Squal comes several times a day. It stops in a few minutes.

It brings rainbows.

Main shopping street. 90+% of people walking on the street are Japanese.

See how hot and muggy. Sunbeams through the plumeria tree.

Looks like one flower but...

two of them. It's called something like "Lovers' Flower" because you need two to make one.

Lots of hermit crabs on the beach.