Day 361: Secondhand books as far as you can see...

Day 361: ...a theme park of sorts

With the library closed from today until the new year, there was only place to go...Kanda. Kanda is a part of town where all the old bookshops are, side-by-side. A bibliophile's heaven as it were. So many books, so little room to take home on the plane...oh well, careful selection. 

In the end, I came across about four older books on whaling which will be interesting, they predate the toughest of the recent whaling wars, a book on Japanese thought and one on feminist history. I could have bought so many more but...

Today's haul

On the way back home, I took the long walk back to a station past Korakuen, a theme park in Tokyo, next to Tokyo Dome (with its own hotel), home of my baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants. I thought the perfect bluesky day might make a bit of a nice backdrop.

One of the rides...

Ride, with hotel

Not South Bank (but we could add a roller coaster...)

 On the walk home from the station (the subway which I don't take all that often, the 'back way' as we call it), I strolled through the park for a few different views of local life. Everyone seemed to be out walking, or playing with family or just strolling.

Setting sun in the tree tops in Itabashi

Now there's something you don't often see...

A local sculpture 'ohanashi ga joozu', 'you can talk...' ...

Detail, or selfie-spot

You can almost touch the moon

Then it was back home, to oden for dinner and plans for tomorrow...

[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm, 3.11pm, 3.14pm, 3.15pm, 4.15-4.20pm]