Curious Buildings 2. Asahikawa, Biei, Higashikawa.

Unique buildings that break the boring standard of our cities and towns.

It is wonderful to find these rare pearls in our walks.

Is it difficult to find furniture for a round house?

Sure the floors are not sloped, but how fun it would be!

Sometimes houses seem to have faces and look at us.

Does not it have a lovely duck face?

Why does everything have to be square?

Of course!

The Asahikawa Mosque?

No, it is a waste incinerator plant. Its energy is used to heat a pool.

Red brick is not widely used here.

Only for industrial buildings and warehouses.

 This is a little scary.

And finally, these lovely survivors who resist surrounded, threatened, for how long?

Curious buildings 1.

To be continued...

Cycling. Shirogane blue pond. "Aoii Ike".

This morning I left for a two-hour bike ride.

And suddenly I found this ...

I had to stop, I love this kind of stuff.

And got a message on my phone: 
I had the day off!

Then this image came out like a flash.

It was a pending issue.

Shirogane blue pond.

I took this direction. Mount Tokachi from Biei.

My gift day was perfect.

Even too hot.

In this cool place I consulted Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pond_(Biei)

"...is a man-made water feature in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the result of works on the Biei River (美瑛川?), carried out after the 1988 eruption of Mount Tokachi, to protect the town of Biei from volcanic mudflows. The colour is thought to result from the accidental presence of colloidal aluminium hydroxide in the water."

Man-made??? I did not expect. My interest increased and I pedaled again.

A berry plantation-shop!

I love berrys!

It's closed, it's not the right season...

Up hill.

2 kilometers!

I had never seen this color in nature. How beautyful! However, a strange feeling. It must be for the dead trees and the stillness of the water. Is it alive?

Colloidal Alluminium hydroxide eh? Ummhh...

There were many tourists and cameras. I looked for a quiet place to rest and make sense.

Yes, man-made. 

In any case, wonderful!

Can you see the white rabbit?

Going down was pleasant, fresh air on my chest.

But I had to stop here...

Because:

Biei's milk is excellent then soft cream...

On the way back I found this house in Biei.

It deserves to enter the collection "curious buildings" of Asahidake tours!

http://asahidake-tours.blogspot.com/2017/06/curious-buildings.html

See you on the next ride!

Hill Country

 Cycling the Rolling Hills of Biei

Nominated one of the "Most Beautiful Villages in Japan"

The "Family Tree"  (can you see the Papa tree, Mama tree, and Baby tree?)

Beef? Milk?

Grazing sheep

A new way to cut grass?

Leave it to this little guy!

Colors of Hokkaido 2

Are colors so important?

Even more, are they real?

Yes, we can see them everywhere.

Shirogane, Biei,

In nature

But,

according to scientists, artists or color-blind people,

this is not more real

than this

It would be interesting to know what Mr. Polar thinks about this.

Asahiyama Zoo, Asahikawa.

In his habitat almost everything is white.

White Shibasakura.

As it is in this valley during the long winter.

Maybe that's why, since the first sakura flowers sprout,

People here need

Colors

Furano

Clouds of Hokkaido.

        

Lie down on the grass and look at our sky.

Let your imagination fly.

Play with clouds!

Can you see the flying dog? A seahorse!

A seal, swimming. 

Flying children..?

It was you.

Did you have a good time? See you soon!

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Sea of clouds at Unkai Terrace