This one is from Esashi, on the very west coast of the Oshima Peninsula.

Featured are Heishi Rock, famous in local folklore, Kaiyo Maru, another Japanese Warship, a seagull, and what looks to be a breaking wave curling around the bottom and right side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamome_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_frigate_Kaiyō_Maru

#DrainSpotting #Japan #Hokkaido

Did I say I had some hot train content in the queue? I meant hot *drain* content.

This one is from Kikonai, a little town west of Hakodate along the South Hokkaido Railway, but also has a station on the Hokkaido Shinkansen, in fact it's the first station on the line in Hokkaido!

The ship on the cover is the Kanrin Maru, which sank nearby in the 1800s and there's a monument to nearby!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_warship_Kanrin_Maru

#DrainSpotting #Japan #Hokkaido

@kitchen nice idea! How about to add the #Drainspotting? ;o)

Another from Hakodate: squid!

Hakodate is well known for their squid production. The morning market near the station you can buy live squid!

These 3 look like they’re having a bit of a dance.

#Hakodate #Japan #DrainSpotting

First up we have one from Hakodate city!

Hakodate really loaves their five sided objects. They even have 5 sided bollards!

This is of course a reference to Fort Goryokaku, a large star shaped “bastion fort” in the center of the city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gory%C5%8Dkaku

So it’s only natural they’d have a star shape on their manhole covers.

#Japan #DrainSpotting #Hakodate

All hail the unsung, unseen council workers who sit in boring meetings in dull offices and say things like: "What if we put a fairytale on the drain cover to make it look nice for everyone in the city?"

#Drainspotting
#Copenhagen
#København

@unfortunatalie #drainspotting seems right to me, but maybe no-ones using it yet.

This one is one of my Birdsite grooves: #ManholeCoverMonday Chas Conrick Co., but it looks to me like it's from the East Jordan (MI) Iron Works (center) foundry. The more local & unique, the better. We also call it #drainspotting. You feel me.