Art On Shutters

On a Sunday morning, I walked around Americamura.


In this area, there are many shops for young people selling clothes, accessories, music records and so on.


Most shops open at 11:00 a.m. or later.
I found many pictures on closed shutters.


For years, there has been problem about graffiti in this area.


People who loves Americamura wish to clean up the town.

Owners of shops and locals started to clean the graffiti off
and changed the shop shutters into canvases.

They thought youngsters may hesitate to draw graffiti over the paintings.


Many of pictures on shutters were drawn by students studying art.
They also love this town.


You can fined many more pictures on shutters when you walk around this area.

vineyard

The wind was green and sweet scents.

I ate many grapes and got full stomach.


it's not mature yet


Here is Kobe Fruit and Flower Park.
At the garden, people can pick various fruits of the season: grapes, peaches, apples and pears.
There are many other facilities like flower garden, hotel, hot spring, amusement park etc.

a white gourd-melon soup

Dotonbori2

"Kuidaore taro" is a symbol of Dotonbori.
Tourists were waiting to take photos with him.



I found A Ramen-ya restaurant that has no wall.
Good smell.

Dotonbori

Major tourist destination in Osaka.
Most people have the image of Osaka, not stylish but energetic and friendly.
Here is one of the street you can feel such typical sense of this city.

Maybe
motorbikes are cherished.


I traveled Vietnam.
LOTTERIA is a Japanese chain of fast-food restaurants similar to McDnald's.
but of course Japanese don't park motorcycle in the restaurant.
So it was very interesting sight for me.