Here are a few pictures of my recent walkabouts and random wanderings through Shizuoka. Last weekend Dawn and I decided to take the Shizutetsu (the local train) to a neighborhood near Ito Yokado (where we work) to just explore a little bit. We got off the train a stop after our stop for work and just started walking. We ran into all kinds of crazy things, Japanese Driving School courses, bamboo forests, Japanese neighborhoods, massive Japanese apartment complexes, driving ranges, a small park which led to a shrine (which I have included some pictures of), a huge cemetery and a street of traditional style buildings. We didn't know where exactly we were going and didn't have anything in particular in mind to find, we were just wandering and stumbled upon some pretty neat stuff. We
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