Apart from today (rain from morning to evening without a break), we've actually had some decent weather over this GW. (For non-Japan residents, it's a series of public holidays which amount to something like a week off, depending on job and various other things). Most people - and this seems to be a universal - get in their cars and voluntarily sit in colossal traffic jams. I didn't fancy that, and there was plenty going on in the local area, so I stayed in Nagoya. 

A mix of shots from dance festivals and general around-the-city photography, coming right up.

These are the main buildings around Nagoya station, shot from an angle I'd never shot before: from a station just a little out from Nagoya station itself.

Disembarkation at the Port of Nagoya

Wood. Just wood.

Lizard and dragonfly

Double dutch skipping demonstration

The garish underground shopping street

Part of a three day dance festival. More of these to come.

Arakogawa park, one of the parks in Nagoya I don't go to so often. It's quite pleasant, though.

The observant bird and the man on the bridge.

You don't have to be tall to stand out....

Crossing the bridge

Last picture of this entry (with a nod to the late Esbjörn Svensson): definition and a dog.

Plenty of pictures left, so part 2 will follow in due course.

Thanks for looking!