桃の木 fleur de pecher

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Among the flower trees in Spring, there are three princesses of flowers.
The first princess is of course a cherry flower.
The second princess is a Ume flower.
And this peach is the third princess of Spring flowers.

(@阿佐ヶ谷北、　Asagayakita, Suginami ward)

クリスマスローズ noel de mars

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Though the name is Chirstmas rose, I always take the pricture of this flower in March.

（@ 北青山, Kitaaoyama, Minato ward）

何故ふくろう？ chouette

In and around the Ikebukuro station, you can easily find lot's of symbols of oul. I can't count up the number of figures of oul or pictures of it.
Ikebukuro is "Ike+fukuro". "Fukuro" could be exagerated to "Fukurouf(= oul)."
So they start to use an oul as a symbol of Ikebukuro.

(@池袋駅　　Ikebukuro station, Ikebukuro ward)

逃げ水１ mirage

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Near a power plant beside the Redondo beach, I always watch a mirage on the road.

ミニーマウスの味噌汁 miso soupe de Minymouse

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Every morning I never fail to have a bowl of miso soupe.
This day, I make a Miny kamaboko miso soupe.

カツカレー cotelette de porc panee et riz au curry

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(I love any dish of pork cutlet and rice with curry sauce.)
I don't recomend the other dish of Sumiyoshi-ken but this one.
If you had a heart truble, you had better not to order this.
The taste of full butter and salt is not for health but great, I say.

住吉軒 restaurant Sumiyoshi

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It's a very small chinese restaurant near the Higashinakano station in which more than dozen people can not have a seat. The prices are all cheap and taste not so bad.

（東中野　Higasinakano, Nakano ward)

新地名の誕生の痕跡 une toponyme

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Why the subway station is "Higasinakano" and the railway staton is "Higashi nakano"?

There may be a history. (I believe)
In the Meiji era, there is no word or name of place, "Higasinakano."
When they constructed a railway and stations, a station at the westward from here was named "Nakano" which is a old name of land and had been used for more than a century.
The urbanization of Tokyo progressed and many people became dwelling around here which would be new passengers for the train. So the railway company made a new station named Higashi Nakano( East of Nakano).
And it passed a time long enough to forget the old land name and of the dwellers to think their address is Higasinakano.
After then, people have used Higasinakano and not "Higasi nakano".
Only the Japan Railway company keep to use the old words.

(東中野　Higasinakano, Nakano ward)

寒椿 canelia

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Among the hedge of the pavement it blooms. As winter camelia's blooming time is so long, people seldom watch it in March.

(@青山通り，　Aoyama, Minato ward)

喫茶店の窓際 fenetre

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A little zoo on the stool of a small cafe, " Jack and the beanstalk".

(@ジャックと豆の木　Higashinakano, Nakano ward)