Service: Shy but very friendly Equipment and facilities: Spotless clean. Superb washroom. Entirely non-smoking! Prices: Reasonable Strong points: Local sake by the glass. Extensive wine...
HIGHOCTANE/HAIOKU by Nick Itoh in Shizuoka City My friend Atsuko Kurata discovered this old manhole cover in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City. “出雲式” or (“Bursting Cloud...
Courtesy of Atsuko Kurata! Shizuoka Fire Department Water tank Access! She found this very unusually patterned manhole cover in her neighborhood near Kusanagai JR Station...
Courtesy of Atsuko Kurata! She found this brightly colored manhole cover in Shimizu Ku, Shizuoka City, outside Shimizu JR Station West Exit near bus stand...
Fire Department water hydrant manhole cover in Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City! I already know of many blogging friends in Japan taking pictures of manhole covers...
“Kura” (in japanese 蔵 or 倉) means “warehouse” or “Storehouse”. In traditonal Japan, especially during the Edo Era, as most of buildings and urba/village structures...
