Monday, December 14, 2009

Ninomiya park in December

This clock tower is the symbol of this park and it is pretty accurate.

Japan is one of the countries in the northern hemisphere where you can spend winter comfortably.

Some trees were already waiting for the spring to come.

You can reserve a tennis court on the Internet.

We can often see pine trees in Japan.

A bird was basking in the sunshine.

This promenade beside this park takes you to the center of my city in about 20 minutes.


We're now in the middle of December, but it's relatively warm in my city, which is about 60km away from Tokyo. The average high of the last week was about 12 degrees(Celsius), so it was suitable to play tennis outside. As I told you before, I like to play tennis on weekends and since this city has many parks that have tennis courts, I can almost always reserve a tennis court for Saturday or Sunday.

And this Ninomiya park is the most popular park among tennis players in my city. It holds tennis events many times through a year, and as this park has 6 tennis courts and some benches to sit on and chat, young people get together and enjoy tennis like a party.

This area is called Ninomiya and its land price is the highest in my city as the surroundings are nice with small but nice shops like beauty salons, bakeries, clothing stores and so on. And we can enjoy natural beauty as well in this park.