Time to wear yukata or summer kimono. Each year on June 29 Yukata Matsuri/Festival is held at the Hiroshima University to mark the end of spring and to welcome summer. 
Bispapa or Bistro Pa Pa is a cafe, bar and diner. With some flag signs on its facade, I think it offers menus from around the world.
Another Italian restaurant, Pizzeria Mar-De Napoli. I've never been inside, guess its primi piatti is pizza? :)
Everybody loves Italian food and I can tell that in Saijo, it's a favorite. There are many Italian restaurants which serve not only some common Italian food but the special ones, too.
Cheezuu fondyu. Anybody can decipher its meaning? Cheezuu is of course cheese :).
The last poppy I saw last week on the street side.
No more spring signs, they have trimmed and cleaned all spring flowers. Time flies so fast.
Second day of the festival was held both indoor and outdoor. Meet the mascot, Nanto the Drunken Raccoon. I don't think it's wise to let your kid to be near this gentleman :).
I came to see at the park late in the afternoon when the show was about to finish, when the last band which I presumed from university students were seriously playing their instruments,
where the only audience were their own friends. Just loved the spirit.
Higashi Hiroshima Music Festival is held annually in the summer. This year the music festival emphasized on brass instrument. The performers came from various groups in Higashi Hiroshima city, mainly students from junior, high school students and university.
This group of teachers and students of Kurose High School. Have you ever heard Africa by Toto played in concert? :). 
A cappela also took part in this event. It was nice to listen to them singing J-pop with a cappela.
You can guess from the tittle above what sign it is :). It's a sign which is found on most electric masts in Saijo and probably anywhere in Japan. 
This one is not a sign actually, it's on a gate of sake house located in my neighborhood. I asked several people about this writing, so far, nobody has answered my challenge :). Let's just enjoy this photo, I personally like it. What about you? :)
This sign is in the old street behind my house. I was told there's an electric tower inside the room, which is odd, as we see the room is not too tall to keep a tower. Well, a short tower perhaps?
The other two signs are found on sake houses' wall. 
Now I'm open to suggestion about these signs. Anyone can break the codes? :).
Signs for today's post are found at Hiroshima University. Apparently, this sign above doesn't work :).
This is a trash bin special for empty milk box. I wonder who was behind this nice box.
Always love this funny sign. It's a sign that tells us to turn off our car engine during the night when parking in front of a konbini store.
Like my five days ago post, these signs look similar, to prevent people from entering the area. This one above is a more serious sign which is aimed for adults.
And this one is for children. We can see it from how funny that man is :).
My new theme starts today. It's all about signs. There are so many signs in Saijo that really catch my attention. Some I completely don't understand, some make me laugh on the street. 
Angkor II, located in downtown Saijo, is the biggest pachinko in town. For a small town, Saijo quite has many pachinkos. In the morning, usually there's a long line of people waiting to get in to find their luck. I love this one, it has many funny posters outside. Of course this building not only houses pachinko parlor, however, sorry, I haven't found out what other activities run in this huge building. Moreover, I'm not able to go inside yet. Got to find someone for free tour:).
Angkor III, one of the Angkor pachinko parlors in Saijo. It is always like this, colorful banners, dramatic anime and plastic flowers.
Gohan or rice from Saijo and other areas in Hiroshima. As we all know that rice is staple food in Japan, Japanese rice with its size and texture is different with other varieties that come from let say, South-East Asia.
Makizushi ((巻き寿司) or rolled sushi with cucumber, best for barbeque :).
An old barbershop, in the old part of the town.
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