Our 1st floor with "no-ren" curtains up.
1st floor with mats down and no curtain.
Mika's penitentiary...er uh...school.
The rice shop a block from our house.
Neighboring, random metal shop.
More neighbors...1st floor machine shop.
Foundry in the hood.
Typical work truck in Japan. There are no long-nosed "pickups" here.
The mammoth ROAD HOG!
Going east from my house, the train comes up/down at this point...
The sign says, "Danger!! Obey the signal!"
Our park with Alex's kindergarten in the background.
Finally! Laying the brick sidewalk last week!
The new "Hanshin Railway Kujo Station"...pretty slick for Kujo...
West from my house, the train is above ground.
A typical Japanese carport.
An older less fashionable rice shop.
1-man metal shop next to the rice shop...
...his forge is REAL hot during Osakan summer!
Into our shopping "Arcade"...here's the mailman!
The altar shop. Yes, they sell altars.
The fruit stand. This guy always says hi to me.
Barber "White" where I get my haircuts. Appropriate name?
Old schoooool
More old school (no mom, it isn't really a school)
This...is the elevator building. We go 3 stories down, walk under the river through a tunnel and go up into "Nishi-Kujo" (the West side)
The smelly river.
Dorky chrome all over trucks here is common.
Pachinko shops are EVERYWHERE here.
Nishi-Kujo station.
mini shop on the train platform.
And...just a typical junky "garden". No yard whaddyagunna do?
Near where I teach my kids classes...
Ooohhh yeeaahhh.
The outdoor shrines of Kujo. Here is 1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
closeup inside of #8
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inside #9.
