For a few weeks each year they open a section of the park behind my house. People come from all over to see the katakuri (fawn lily) flowers. Apparently rare in Tokyo. The rest of the year it stays locked.

Feral parakeet, Tokyo (野生のインコ　🦜)

Yoyogi Uehara

Sun going down, Tokyo

Stickered, wall in Shinjuku

Rare snowy morning in Tokyo

Outside wall of restaurant in Shin-Okubo, Tokyo 🐤 (up too high to squeeze)

(1/7) Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1957 film 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月), also known as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, was shot at ten lighthouses across Japan. Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Kanagawa below on right, and more screenshots from the film in thread…

Fuji-san, Saturday morning

Shinjuku Station, 1945

Michiko Hamamura, the Banana Boat Girl, and to change the mood, her バナナ・ボート (Banana Boat Day-O), released 1957: youtu.be/zcUjspOfY2U?...

Sunrise at Oizumi Yasaka Shrine

Stand with Greenland

Train crossing in Yoyogi, and another pleasant day in Tokyo If you look closely (zoom in), you might spot Spider-Man 🕸️

Stand with Greenland

Yoyogi Park At about: 35.6714008, 139.6973842

Kawagoe At 35.9234724, 139.4831920

Full moon coming up over Tokyo at sunset

Still autumn

Shrine cat 🐈

Night heron (ミゾゴイ) making a rare afternoon appearance in Inokashira Park. Lots of cameras clicking.

Ginkgo (often misspelled "gingko") Saturday morning, Tokyo

Veggie “Treasure Ship” Hikarigaoka Park, Tokyo at: 35.76273° N, 139.62916° E

Shakuji Park at 35.73821° N, 139.60367° E

Blue sky over Tokyo today ☀️ Kannon Bodhisattva statue at Sasadera Chōzen-ji At: 35.68690° N, 139.71791° E

Minato-ku’s (perhaps sole) Muscovy duck, at rest At: 35.66687° N, 139.73302° E

One night a thief entered Ryōkan’s mountain hut and found nothing to steal. Ryōkan said, “You have come a long way, and should not go empty‑handed. Take my clothes as a gift.” He later sat naked, gazing at the sky. “Poor fellow—I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.” —Ryōkan (1758–1831)

Mt. Fuji at sunset (shot at 16:52)

Autumn morning 🍂 At Sampoji Pond: 35.73848° N, 139.59509° E

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🕷️ 🧙 Two Tanuki skulking about behind the house . . .

Kokia bushes spooky for Halloween 👻 Also used for making brooms. At: 35.77652° N, 139.60135° E

16:18 Nerima City

Shakuji Park

No filters What a sky Iitabashi, Tokyo

Storefront

Kabukicho Benzaiten autumn festival At: 35°41'40.0"N 139°42'08.6"E

7:16 Shinjuku

Mt. Fuji in the distance

TokyoScope News: #Japan’s legendary actress #MeikoKaji reflects on 60 years in cinema, saying her killer roles made men too scared to approach her. “That is why I am still single.” Full story: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/meiko-kaji...

Organization

Graceful fisher

This Jizō statue stood on the banks of Lake Ashi in Hakone for 150 years when Felice Beato took this photo in the 1860s. Within a decade, the lakeside statue would be vandalized, sold, and removed in the aftermath of the Buddhist persecution during the early Meiji era. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan

Birds of a different feather at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno 35°42'40.8"N 139°46'10.4"E

Saw one or two Series C ¥1000 notes in the ’90s, already rare then (in circulation 1963–1986, now fetching high prices on eBay). C featured Japan's first prime minister, Ito Hirobumi, who Natsume Soseki mocked in his novel I Am a Cat. Soseki replaced him on the Series D note (1984–2007).

Spotted a striated heron (ササゴイ) along the Shirako River in Tokyo this morning. My first! May be becoming something of an ornithophile 🦉

My dog’s look when I say let’s go for a walk and there’s a typhoon 👀

At Shinobazu Pond, Ueno 35°42'36.3"N 139°46'19.9"E

Koenji Awa Odori festival