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Though KITAMURA's challenge hasn't borne
any fruit, we welcome him at a riverside
park near the Lighthouse. The picture 14 shows a strict vegetarian ASAKURA is forced
to eat deep-fried liver, which is a specialty
of Tsukuda-jima Island. (It's available at
"A" and "B" points on
the map. "A" shows the location of "HISAGO-YA"
shop where this fried liver costs 120 yen,
while "FURAI-NO-MAMI" on "B" sells one for 110 yen though.
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About Tsukuda-jima Island.
Here, we often see the foreign travelers
looking quzzically for the traditional Japanese
houses that are on their guidebooks. Please
remember it's not so easy to find Japanese
traditional housings such as "TEN-YASU"(photo14) even in this area now. The photo below
shows contemporary Tsukuda-jima.
But if you want to visit some old places
without deep expectation, SUMIYOSHI-JINJA
shrine(photo16) is recommended. Around this shrine, you
will find a park with Japanese-style garden(photo17), the promenade along Sumida river(photo18), and some old wooden houses in places(photo19).
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Tsukuda-jima is surely changing day
by day. They scrap old-fashioned wooden houses
and build high-rise apartmens(photo 20).
It may be natural to prefer a housing shown
in (photo 22) to that of (photo 21), but
I would live in a house with an old wooden
exterior and it's interior excessively remodeled
like Batman's secret base(photo 23).
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While high-rise buildings don't make
us curious about the people living in there,
it's easy to
get acquainted with those of traditional
wooden houses. I love to watch old women
(like in photos 24,25,26,27) and cats(28,29,30) coming out from the alleys with low wooden
houses on both sides.
Of course they may not be such people.
There can be a woman who has a black belt
in judo, or a cat which is a robot with far
more performance than well-known "AIBO",
running 100m in 0.1 sec.,playing Chopin on
the piano better than Maestro Arthur Rubinstein,
entering the Pentagon's super computer systems
illegally with a mobile computer. Anyways,
it's fun to meet people in Tsukuda-jima and
imagine what they really are .
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The cat(photo 30) is so brave to expose its face without
any masking while people's eyes are masked
to guard their privacy.
