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rurouni_gaijin — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:42:30 MDT

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Pathway leading from Keage station. To the left and up is a cemetery, to the right is the path towards a local temple, and eventually towards my apartment. Just a looong ways from where this is. It's pretty by daytime but kinda creepy at night. There's signs to the right, on the fence, warning about monkeys and not making eye contact. Apparently they're nasty buggers. Haven't seen them yet but I keep hearing stories from people trying to freak me out. T_T

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:24:34 MDT

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:24:02 MDT

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Pretty houses along the way back.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:24:00 MDT

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Hello creepy abandoned factory on the way to my apartment! This is why I take the other route home at night. Creeepy.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:44 MDT

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Path towards the temple. Bit faded out and bleached here, but it is pretty. Spring is so impossibly green here.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:43 MDT

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Biig carp windsocks by the weird house. Usually they're flown for children's day if you have a boy in the house. No idea why they're up now ...

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:42 MDT

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The weirder house up by the local temple. I think this should be a tourist attraction. I'm sure it gets plenty of gawkers.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:41 MDT

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Another house along the way.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:40 MDT

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:39 MDT

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Finally, zoom worked!

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:32 MDT

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A bit closer .. and my zoom fails again.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:31 MDT

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Really pretty bank of purple flowers by some of the houses on the scenic route to my apartment. So pretty ... but my camera doesn't do them justice at all. Thus, took like, ten shots trying to get it right. Failed in all of them. But it was a noble effort.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:30 MDT

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Path up towards some of the more remote houses in my area.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:10 MDT

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Looking down towards the main road. The barbed wire fence is the fence for the old water processing plant.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:09 MDT

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Looking through the rusted iron gate towards the old water processing factory. Nothing in it works anymore, so I've been told, but there's a barbed wire fence up about it, and the lights still go on at night. It creeps me out a lot. IF I was an evil overlord, this would be my secret base. I choose to go up by the cemetary, where all the signs warning about not looking monkeys in the eyes are, to give you a clue how much this place creeps me out.

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To the left is the gated fence that goes ... well, I'm not sure where. Someone's house I presume. To the right is a home ... kinda. Always creeps me out when I walk by it at night. I have far too active an imagination for this place sometimes. D:

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:06 MDT

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Gyah. Too bright to come out properly. This is one of the fancy gates on the houses by my apartment. Where I live isn't pretty, but the area close to it is!

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:03 MDT

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Small shrine on the way up towards my apartment.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:03 MDT

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:01 MDT

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Looking down on Keage from the hike up towards my apartment. Yes .. it is a hike.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:22:44 MDT

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Another shot of the canal, with cherry tree and zoom!

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:22:43 MDT

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:22:42 MDT

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Shot from the hills looking towards one of the older buildings. Keage's full of old, abandoned things. It feels like this place saw its glory days maybe half a century ago and it has since retired and is slowly fading away. It is kind of sad, but kind of beautiful too.

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:22:41 MDT

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Looking the other way, towards the cherry trees, and the old train tracks that stopped working long, long before I got here. There's more pics of this area under the folder Keage in my photobucket from the summer before. When I took them, I did not expect that I would move close to here!

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rurouni_gaijin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:22:25 MDT

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Biwako Canal, looking towards Shiga and lake Biwa from the bridge

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Entranceway towards the canal, and some of the prettiest houses along the way towards it. The gardens here are gorgeous, and beautifully maintained.