Katsushika-shika #06

2009-03-22T11:51:00.001-07:00

Katsushika-shika #05

2009-03-04T11:52:00.000-08:00

Katsushika-shika #04

2009-03-04T11:47:00.000-08:00

" Am I ugly? " " No, you are an average "

Katsushika-shika #03

2009-03-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

Katsushika-shika #02

2009-03-04T11:34:00.001-08:00

" Today, we' re in the middle of our youth" " Tomorrow,too"

Katsushika-shika #01

2009-02-10T10:45:00.000-08:00

"Hey, don't go down to the river"

The Edo river, Edogawa City, Tokyo

Katsushika walking #01 "Between the rivers"

2009-02-10T09:21:00.000-08:00

I went for a walk around Sumida city last day.

Started from Asakusa Kaminari gate, I walked along Asakusa street to The Sumida river, and crossed the Azuma bridge. The oppsite side of the bridge is Sumida city, industrial and densely populated district, where famous Ukiyo-e painter KATSUSHIKA Hokusai was born (Today's four cities of east Tokyo, Sumida, Koto, Edogawa and Katushika is located in former South Katsushika district. So Hokusai named after his native place south Katsushika).

About five minutes walk from the bridge, near Narihira-bashi station, you can see a very big construction site for new Tokyo tower called "Tokyo Sky Tree".

But it's TOO EARLY yet. Construction of the tower have just started last summer, I could see only a"stump" of the sky tree.

Left this future sky tree, I went on walking around Sumida city.

1 km east from Narihira-bashi station, I strayed into a back alley in Kyojima, one of the most typical Tokyo shita-machi area. Along curved narrow paths, small houses are clustered close together.

Just few kilometres from Tokyo city centre, there is no skyscrapers and almost no modern large buildings. But old wooden houses and maze of narrow streets there, the town is very nice place to wonder around.

I went on walking towards the Ara river which flows through the east side of Sumida city.

The other side of the river is my home, Katsushika city, the easternmost area of Tokyo.