The joy of exploration.

I thought this was an interesting view. Quite different from the typical US neighborhood. Usually houses surround their yard with walls here, at least older houses do. You can see up the incline that someone has a gate pulled across their driveway—that also is fairly normal here, but would look odd in America. The sign you see near the driveway is a place for trash. Everyone in the neighborhood will carry their trash to this one location. You can see the netting that you are suppose to put over the trash so that crows don't come and pick at it.

All that growth there is someone's yard. Not many people have yards this big—yards are expensive. But the folks who do have the extra land normally grow everything in it, so their yard resembles more small jungles than those well maintained Japanese gardens you might think of.

Oh yeah, and the wires. I'm used to it now and barely notice them, but seems like folks back home are always asking me why there are so many.

David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku.

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