26 April - 19 May 2000
Iwaki City Flower Center
This is near the beginning of the climb up to the top of Mt. Ishimori and the Flower Center. It is rice planting time in all the paddies on the edge of Taira and between the towns of Iwaki City.
What look like flags flying from the pole above the house in the picture below are actually carp banners. Cloth or plastic banners shaped like carp are flown for about a week to celebrate Boys Day.
Iwaki City Flower Center is at the top of Mt. Ishimori. The total grounds cover 250,000 sq. meters with a hot house containing rare and tropical plants. It is only 6 Km from my apartment but the last Km is very steep.
The altenate route that I took back home
A view of Taira with Ryugajo Hill just visable to the right over the small hill in the forground. The picture above and the two below give you an idea of the geography and a bit of the vegatation.
That is Taira in the distance with one of the roads back to town exiting the trees in the foreground. I didn't take this one because it looked too steep but found that my selection was just as bad.
