On a walkway over a large intersection.

First visit to a Japanese garden.

All the shrubs are neatly pruned to appear more shrub-like.

 Dry streambed.

 

Because the garden is over 400 years old many mature trees like this one have been pruned every year for their entire lives.

And this one.

Not so dry stream bed.

  Confluence

合流

ferns

歯朶

lilies

百合

 Azaleas

つつじ

Japanese Cedar

杉

iris

菖蒲

Note: the kanji for iris spelled Ayame in English is also used as a Japanese girls name.

Bamboo grass

笹

the obligitory ant colony　

 plum orchard

Waterfall

滝

First thing resembling a lawn I have seen after 3 days here.

 Decent into madness at Harajuku.

Another case of a store name that would never work in the US. 

Where we had lunch.