Friday, 21 September 2012

26 october 2005

I am in Japan, again.  I make my way through Chofu station, out to Nishi Chofu, to the apartment where Kazu's mother and family now live.  I am obliged to stay with them.  I even remember the short cut through the dark restaurant.  It is crowded, and just as I remember it.
What I find remarkable is how immensely clean it all is.  Now I am outside and it is hilly.  I am looking down into clear aqua bays, a soft sandy bottom and coral outcroppings visible below, with apartment buildings built right up to the water's edge.
If I lived here, I could just open my window and jump in the water.  The air is cold.  But is the water?  It looks tropical; not a spot of trash.  But now I can't figure out how to go to Nishi Chofu.
How beautiful Tokyo is.

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