Scenes I saw in Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
Last week, I went to Tokyo for the first time in a while to attend a social gathering for current and former staffs at the office where I used to work. Next day, I got off at Shibamata Station on the Keisei Electric Railway to visit Shibamata Taishakuten . The statue of *Fūten no Tora-san* in front of the station which starred Kiyoshi Atsumi. Although the statue of the younger sister of Tora-san is out of the frame, Tora-san is turning around to see his younger sister who came to see him off. Her name is Sakura. This is a famous line from the movie *Otoko wa Tsurai yo* (It's Tough Being a Man). A total of 48 episodes of this movie were released between 1969 and 1995. I was born and brought up in Shibamata, Katsushika . I was blessed at Taishakuten Temple. Kuruma is my family name, and my given name is Tora-jiro. But people usually just call me TORA ... Tora the street peddler. This is the approach leading to the Shibamata Taishakuten temple in Shibamata, Katsushika W...
