Michael Lambe of Deep Kyoto has been writing for a few months on a shortsighted scheme under way in Kyoto City, selling off part of Umekoji Park near Kyoto Station to Orix Corporation to build an aquarium. Today he has a guest column on the Japan Today website.
There are many reasons why Kyoto doesn’t need an aquarium, starting with the fact that there is already a large, well-known aquarium in neighboring Osaka, WHICH IS A PORT CITY where an aquarium makes some sense. Kyoto Prefecture’s port is far away beyond …
Do you ever wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “The world is still here. I’m still alive.”? Sometimes it happens after bad dream, or sometimes for no reason at all that I can discern. It’s like that for me every day, now. Last night I stayed up until 2 a.m., as I have been doing too much, lately, chasing down information on the latest developments in Fukushima. This morning when I got up I went to the window and heard a train. Never really felt glad …
Part 1, mostly the area around Manshu-in Temple in Sakyo-ku.
