Photo of a photo in the airport advertising the cranes in JapanCrane statues in front of the crane museum and observatory.Welcome to the crane museum.Origami cranes, the blue ones and the red ones each made out of one piece of paper. How on earth did they do that? They were just in large squares but I made a photo collage out of them, like a quilt.I could see thousands of cranes looking out from the observatory By the rice paddies Outside the observatory Crows on a wire outside the observatory looking towards the mountains.Flying in a pairSign for the museumLandscaping outside the crane observatory. I love the topiary trees and shrubs.Cranes on the ground at another observation point. Again not my photographs, taken by one of the birders on the trip.Time for supper but that one’s not for me thank you very much.
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That view of the misty layers of mountains in the distance!