Gifu City is in southern Gifu Prefecture, lying just to the north of Nagoya, Japan’s fourth-largest city. As I said in a blaug entry, I went to Gifu to visit Brian, who had just moved there. These pictures are from the time that I spent battling true Japan heat with a fellow American.
Gifu (岐阜)
The first four-tenant apartment I’ve seen.
Brian’s fourth of the oddly winged building.
Only the sink, floor, and walls came standard.
Even light fixtures had to be bought later.
I slept beneath a fan at night, and it saved me.
Thank you, Fan Terior.
Those fans really were our best friends.
Gifu Castle, visible from Brian’s front door.
A middle school sits across the street.
Students practicing, even in this heat!
Would you like to live 2 cm from your neighbors?
Or how does fitting in that parking spot sound?
We ate at a McD’s, a few blocks from this one.
Japan has Pita Macs. And McPorks. Wee.
Amazingly, it actually looks like the picture.
Later we found an Internet café—with A/C!
Our reflective screens took to the menu.
Random Engrish #1.
Random Engrish #2.
A small canal next to the train tracks.
The other side of the imposing tracks.
A couple of Gifu’s high-rise buildings.
An African wood crafts store . . . here??
어서오세요／全州館—at right, a Korean restaurant where we ate.
Another look at downtown Gifu.
There’s Mitsubishi (“three diamonds”), my dad’s company.
And again a few blocks away.
Low-hanging power lines over a pedestrian bridge.
The closest I’ve been to phone lines like this.
The smallest railroad crossing I’ve seen.
The smallest train I’ve seen in Japan.
Not quite so monstrous as the tracks above, eh?
A local Shintō shrine.
Wow, architecture with aesthetic for once.
Prettier than your average Japan, I’d say.
Well, a little barbed wire never hurt anybody . . .
May Peace Prevail behind the Barbed Wire
