Sake Brewery Ladder

* One of the many around the city * Seemingly desolate park with nobody in it * Two-person swing set in a wide

* Hundred-sixty year old tea house in Mamedanomachi, called Shimaya. * Jewel of a building; charming interior and exterior both. * Will close

* Labor Day weekend getaway * Friend brought kerosene-fueled katanas, just to have fun * ... * We did.

* Quaint little vineyard not 50 yards away * Listed in the National Register of Historic Places (though I wouldn't

* Friend's apartment literally juts out over the water * Massive forest fire in British Columbia, smoke visible as far