52 Fujis #15 and #16 - Fujinami & Fujigaoka

If the previous two Fujis were grouped together by geography, these two are grouped together by necessity - there isn’t much you can say about either of them individually.

Fujinami was a huge station with no apparent need to be so big. Another overblown Fuji? Looked like it. It stands as a testament to the Meitetsu commitment to consistency, a doppelganger of half a dozen or more stations in Hamamatsu. Fujinami seemed to be a new town and so I didn’t hang around. I wasn’t very much in the mood for photgraphing the post office and I didn’t feel like the huge walk to find out the true nature of the building at the top of this picture -

Fujigaoka was a nice place. I had a nice pizza here in a nice pizza place. A strange man was nice to me as I came out of the nice station - he nicely said to me “Hello! Welcome to Japan!” in a nice voice. There’s a monorail in Fujigaoka, in addition to the HigashiYama line (one of Nagoya’s subway lines). I think the monorail goes to a new town, which looks like (from the map) it was built on either reclaimed land or a dried up riverbeds. I could be wrong. Either way, everything at this end of Nagoya seems to be frightfully nice and terrifyingly non-descript. Even the doctors here are sugary sweet -

Roll on the next Fuji and perhaps something of substance. Sheesh.

Fujis remaining : 36

More pics at Flickr:
Fujinami.
Fujigaoka.

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 52 Fujis, Japan Trackback URL for this entry