Most of the streams I've seen in Japan are in cement channels. Of course, I've mostly been in urban areas. Japan has lots of wild and steeply descending streams elsewhere. This is the river right by our apartment-to-be in Fujisawa.
It doesn't look like a living river, but this fellow is doing OK:
And here are some carp:
I think I could peg that as "the river by Fujisawa", sans caption - even though I don't think I was in that exact place. I found every city seems to have its own look about it. I'm not sure I could do the same in MN suburbs.
ReplyDeleteBy comparison, the Sagami River, just between Ebina & Atsugi... at least what it looked like last May.
http://picasaweb.google.com/brian.lukis/JPWeek3#5334154097058346834
Yeah, much bigger and wilder, even though the banks are all at a uniform angle and stabilized with concrete. There is lots of evidence of flood control - walls along rivers and gates and such.
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