Winter is coming in Tokyo.

We had the first snow of this season in some prefectures faced on the Sea of Japan. However it was clear and sunny day on the Pacific Ocean. We are standing at the gate of winter.



I know that Tokyo does not look a beautiful city like Paris. People have built everything disorderly, without any plan, concept and vision after she was destroyed by the fire at WWⅡ.

I went up to the roof top of a building near my house( ten minute by bicycle). I could see Mt.Fuji and skyscrapers at Shinjuku. Whenever I am at a tall building, I cannot help worrying about earthquake. As you know Japan is the NO1 country which has been hit by big earthquakes. I have experienced more than one hundred of earthquakes since I was born.

Looking on a street, you can find a lot of bicycles on which mothers put their kids. This is a typical scene which we can see in a residential area.

The public trasport in Tokyo is amazingly developed like capillaries. We have 36 semiofficial trains, 12 private trains, 12 subways, more than 1000 buses. Though I have not imagine how many bicycles there are in Tokyo, I guess about 2 million. It is 25% of population of this city.

It was a silhouette of Mt.Fuji in beautiful sunset.