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Cherry tree forest near the Nishi-guchi (west) gate.
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The outdoor architectural museum is within Koganei Park in Koganei, Tokyo. This is the Visitors Center.
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Koganei Park sakura
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Going to visitors center
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Huge trees shower you with cherry blossoms.
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Visitors Center entrance courtyard
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Low branches are common
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Jisho-in Mausoleum
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Mansion of Mitsui Hachiroemon, one of the museum's must-see buildingsFounder of the Mitsui zaibatsu.
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Inside Mitsui Hachiroemon mansion
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Tokiwadai Photo Studio, 1937Unfortunately, it was closed for renovations. It has a large frosted glass which brought in daylight for studio lighting.
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Farmer's house
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Farmer's house
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Inside farmer's house
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Inside farmer's house
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Another farmer's house
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Inside another farmer's house
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Path to other areas of the huge park.
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Yamanote-dori Road
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Tall one
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Takahashi Korekiyo mansion
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Another cherry tree forest near the center of the park.
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Orge's shack
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Reaching low
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Shitamachi main street
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Visitor's center entrance to the outdoor architectural museum.
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Takei Sanshodo stationary shop
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Cherry blossom promenade
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Takei Sanshodo stationary shop
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On the left is a soy sauce and miso shop. On the right is a public bath.
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Soy sauce shop
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Low-rider cherries
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Soy sauce shop
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Typical Somei-Yoshino cluster of cherry blossoms
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Tavern
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Cherry blossom curtain
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Sento public bath with a temple architectureNamed Kodara-yu.
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This was a weekday.
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Entrance to sento public bath. Men on left and women on right.
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Beautiful day
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Fee collector booth at entrance.
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Changing room
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Tree branches sprawled all over the blue sky.
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Bath entrance
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Cherry blossom veil
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Bathing area
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It says, "Don't open the faucet. Water might flow."
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Bath tub
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Cherry blossom ceiling
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Men's bath
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Cherry blossom roof
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Buckets
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Cherry blossom tent
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Kami-shibai (Storytelling with large paper cards)Popular before the days of television.
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Kami-shibaiSlot to change the story cards.
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Bicycles and cherries
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Old streetcar
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In front of entrance to visitors center
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Inside streetcar
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Old bus
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Fireman's watch tower
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Police box at Manseibashi in Tokyo
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Cherry blossom shade
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Plum blossom trees (withered)
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Nishikawa Villa
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The Three Treasures (in the 1960s): 1. Washing machine with manual wringer
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Red cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラ
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2. Refrigerator
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Red drooping cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラSimilar to a rose.
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3. TV set
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Red drooping cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラSimilar to a rose.
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Kōgan-ji Temple (高岩寺)
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Gate to Koganji temple, a famous spot along the shopping street.
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Koganji temple. The temple's popular name is "Togenuki Jizo-son." It sells magic paper called osugata which supposed to remove a thorn or splinter from your skin. Affix it to the thorn and it will be extracted. とげぬき地蔵尊
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Togenuki means thorn-extracting. Koganji temple incense burner
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Koganji temple Hondo hall. This is a Zen temple belonging to the Soto-shu school. The temple was founded in 1596 and moved to Sugamo in 1891.
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Inside Koganji temple Hondo. The temple houses the Togenuki Jizo statue which is not visible to the public.
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Grounds of Koganji temple as seen from the Hondo hall.
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People line up to wash the famous Kannon statue. The line gets longer on weekends.
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People in line for the Arai (Washable) Kannon statue. Anybody can line up and scrub the statue. No charge.
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Arai Kannon statue. Wash the part of the body to cure the corresponding part of your own body. 洗い観音
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They used to have a tawashi brush to wash the statue, but that wore out the statue. So the replacement statue is now washed/rubbed with a towel instead.
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Jizo statue
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Jizo statue
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People relax in front of the temple.
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The "Balloon Glow" event at Koga Kubo Park in Jan. 2023 was colorful and impressive even when the balloons did not fly. Free event, mainly local crowds.This was actually a 2022 Christmas Eve event, but it was postponed twice due to bad weather or strong winds. Finally held on Jan. 22, 2023.
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Map of Koga Kubo Park. Large park noted for peach blossoms from late March to early April. Also has irises and lotus in summer. 古河公方公園
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Koga Kubo Park has Gosho-numa Pond.
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Koga Kubo Park opened on March 24, 1975. It's quite a large park.
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Fujimi-zuka Hill 富士見塚
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Pheasant bird cage. 鳥小屋
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Food trucks for the balloon glow event.
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Kubo Park's grassy lawn where four hot-air balloons were placed, rolled out flat on a blue tarp over the grass. 芝生広場
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Inflating the balloon.
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The balloons inflated quite quickly.
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Inflating the hot-air balloon.
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Hot-air balloons are vulnerable to strong winds. See how the balloon can sway in strong winds.
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Burner is lit every so often to maintain the hot air.
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They started blowing flames into the balloon.
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The MC came up to the crowd and asked people to give the word to light up the balloons.
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Standing by for sunset.
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When it got dark enough, all four balloons lit up their balloons simultaneously numerous times during the one-hour event.
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The balloon lights up only when the burner is shooting a flame under it. The flame illuminates the entire balloon.
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This photo was taken during the several seconds when the burners of all four balloons were flaming into the balloons at the same time.
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All four balloons lit up at the same time many times during the one-hour balloon glow event. They played J-pop music in the background.
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This is how it looks when they are dark.
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Crowd-pleasing event.
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The 37th Koganei Awa Odori dance festival was held on July 25-26, 2015 from 6 pm to 9 pm in Koganei, Tokyo. A total of 43 dance troupes (2,800 performers) appeared during the two-day festival. Many are based in Koganei.
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Musashi-Koganei Station is crowded on Awa Odori evenings.
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Starting point of the dancers near the train station. 小金井街道北口
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Awa Odori dance troupes are called "ren."
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Aoi Shin-ren
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Also watch my YouTube video of Koganei Awa Odori.
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Also watch my YouTube video of Koganei Awa Odori.
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Aoi Shin-ren
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Aoi Shin-ren
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Aoi Shin-ren
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Aoi Shin-ren
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Sakura-ren is from Koganei
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Sakura-ren
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Sakura-ren at Koganei Awa Odori in July
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Sakura-ren
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Sakura-ren
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Sakura-ren
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Sakura-ren
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Seibu Kodomo-kai-ren
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Seibu Kodomo-kai-ren
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Seibu Kodomo-kai-ren
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Koganei Awa Odori, Tokyo
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Kurenai-ren
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Kurenai-ren
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Koganei Awa Odori
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JR Koga Station (Tohoku Main Line or Utsunomiya Line) is the closet train station to Kubo park.
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JR Koga Station turnstile.
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JR Koga Station
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JR Koga Station west exit.
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There were free shuttle buses from Koga Station (west exit) going to and from the park.
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Shuttle bus schedule from JR Koga Station to Kubo Park.
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Free shuttle buses from Koga Station going to and from the park. This is the Kubo Park parking lot. The return bus is also here.
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Manhole in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture showing fireworks and river.
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JR Koga Station has a shopping mall named VAL.
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Koganei Awa Odori, Tokyo
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JR Koga Station has a shopping mall named VAL.
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JR Koga Station information center (closed).
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JR Koga Station east entrance.
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JR Koga Station east entrance sculpture.
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JR Koga Station platform. About 73 min. by train from central Tokyo.
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JR Koga Station platform.
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Sakura-ren
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Sakura-ren
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