Man and Mountain

A truly serene picture: A man on the mountain in the gardens. (Seriously, these hills had names throughout the gardens that used the character yama for mountain.) The park had so few people that nearly each could have their own bench, lawn, or hill to sit upon, undisturbed.

He was enjoying the surroundings when I snapped this picture. His lap carried a bento box for lunch.

The buildings prominently featured in this photograph and ones that follow are part of the redevelopment that occurred when Japan Railways was privatized. In the Nineteen Eighties, this area was covered with rail tracks for storing freight trains. I'm not sure when these trains are stored today, but the entire area was rebuilt.