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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kit Nagamura</title>
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		<title>Spring training in Mukojima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to think of February as springlike, what with snowfalls, freezing winds and a dusting of dead leaves everywhere. But I know from experience that the intrepid Prunus mume, or plum tree, blooms this month, and a trek to see some blossoms seems de rigueur. From the Tobu Isesaki Line, I get off at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining gems in Okachimachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On early maps of Edo, as Tokyo was known prior to 1868, Okachimachi is rendered as a town (machi) densely packed with the tiny dwellings of okachi — low-ranked, poorly paid samurai infantry.]]></description>
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		<title>The fall fires of Nishigahara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Burning to see fall colors, I head to Tokyo&#8217;s northern Kita Ward, where Kyu Furukawa Teien, the former estate of copper magnate Ichibei Furukawa, features not only a traditional Japanese garden but also Western-style flowerbeds of autumn-blooming roses. At this time of the season, it should be ablaze. Emerging from the Nanboku Line&#8217;s Nishigahara Station, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking out what&#8217;s in store for Kuramae</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Tokyo was Edo and Tokugawa shoguns ruled the land (1603-1867), the burgeoning city&#8217;s most vital staple, rice, was protected in kura (storage houses) along the right bank of the Sumida River. Then, by the simple expedient of adding mae (in front of) to &#8220;kura,&#8221; the area facing the white-washed, thick-walled granaries came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting around for the past on Fish-basket Slope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping to find traces of the fishing village that was Edo (present-day Tokyo) before the first Tokugawa Shogun chose the site for his new political capital in the early 1600s, I head to Gyoranzaka (Fish-basket Slope) in the city&#8217;s central Mita district. I don&#8217;t expect the piscine pizzazz of Tsukiji fish market, but on exiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the fun of the fair &#8212; and that&#8217;s just the temples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by this summer&#8217;s Olympic quest for gold medals, I opt to go for the gold myself. Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo&#8217;s northwestern Nerima Ward is home to Carousel El Dorado, one of the world&#8217;s oldest hand-carved wooden merry-go-rounds. Named for an imaginary city of gold sought by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors around the Amazon basin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over the top ambitions in Mukogaoka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The neighborhood of Mukogaoka &#8212; literally, &#8220;Yonder Hill&#8221; &#8212; huddles under clouds clustered like violet hydrangea blossoms the morning I arrive to explore. From Hon-Komagome Station on the Nanboku subway line, I head east with a cautious eye skyward through a rust belt of shuttered stores, by a sundries stand of lightly grimed goods and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling around Sendagi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yanesen district of central Tokyo, whose name features bits of the names of the three neighborhoods it comprises (Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi), charms visitors with its temple-studded streets, craft shops and prewar architecture. Oddly, though, maps in either Japanese or English rarely guide visitors west of the Chiyoda subway line&#8217;s Sendagi Station, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxtrotting around Asukayama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising amid flat farmland, Asukayama had long been an untended haunt of foxes and their small prey when, in 1720, Yoshimune Tokugawa, the eighth shogun to rule in Edo (present-day Tokyo), had the hilly upland planted with 1,200 cherry trees, 100 maples and 100 pines, to create a public park for flower-viewing. It still draws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plum nuts about Ikegami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you call the Prunus mume a plum or an apricot (it is related to both), the flowers are plum elegant on their leafless, shiny branches and help cheer us through winter&#8217;s finale. To enjoy them to the full, I seek out Ikegami Baien Garden in southern Tokyo&#8217;s Ota Ward, having hopped the Tokyu Ikegami [...]]]></description>
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