Great photo walk! That's the way to do it, walking round and shooting photos. I think I would love your small town. Okazaki is not big at only 360,000, but it's also far from small. There was once a bamboo grove like the one you passed near my place, but they chopped it down a few years ago to make way for... nothing. I miss that.

Thanks for taking us along with you on the photo walk :)