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Even if the temple owner received subsidies from the national, prefectural and municipal governments, it would still have to pay ¥10 million or more from its own pocket.
The egret rookery along the Sakuragawa River on the Tsuchiura-Tsukuba Border – May By Avi Landau One of my favorite everyday experiences in Tsukuba is catching sight of one or more of this area`s numerous egrets ( SAGI in Japanese)- long-legged and long necked white-plumed wading birds, either stalking their prey in the rice fields or streams or flying elegantly overhead, with their necks tucked in and their long legs trailing behind while their slender wings gracefully propel them across the sky. It is something that I never tire of, no matter how often I see it. A closer ...