Getting to know the Niigata Prefecture and Tsubame/Sanjo

This is Tsubame Station! This is where I'll be going everymorning during the week to get to work and different schools. YAY! Doesn't it look fun. I like trains!

Enjoy your cyber tour of Tsubame area!




Here are a few pictures of houses (and mee-mee in a phone booth). The houses vary quite a bit but for the most part thy still have those cool Japanese arch. roofing. The neighborhoods here are really cute, tight-knit and friendly feeling. Biking is also very popular here.











Here's a few shots form the bridge! Check out the mountains in the wayyyy background!







A few shots of the city. As you can see some of the streets are realllly small. The main roads are ok but outside those they get really narrow.







I love the old little streets full of flowers anywhere they fit! In the city where there isn't alot of land for flowers and growing, there are alot of little potted plants everywhere. I even found a cumquat plant!







Getting out of the city toward where I live everyone has little gardens! The Japanese are very handy/industrious and busy people. Even if the land is 3 feet by 4 they've made something beautiful out of it. There are these beautiful little Japanese landscaped gardens all over the neighborhood. I love going on walks to see them! Plus there is alot of (food)gardening here as well. Further out of the city the people may have a little more land and they really get into the gardening. I mean green houses and all. It's really cool, everyone gardens! And they garden anywhere they can too. I've seen some pretty creative ones.