A sign showing the pollin hall at Kugahara Elementary School |
Exit poll by a news media |
People come out and go into the polling hall in front of Kugahara Elementary School. |
Kids are gathering at Seibu Shinto Shrine for its autumn festival. |
A miniature shrine is being carried through Lilac Kugahara Shopping Street. It is covered with a plastic sheet as a sudden thunder shower poured on it. |
New shoots are spreading from the top of willow trunk, which was torn down by strong wind last December, by the "Yanagi No Koban" (Police-Station-by-the-Willow). |
The bandage rolled around the trunk has well aged to fit the landscape. Compare it with the photo on the right, which was taken one month after the disaster. |
Painful figure of the willow tree -- Photo taken on 7 January, one month after it was broken. |