Aaron was driving around one day, and happened to glance off to his left into the mountains. He noticed something there he'd never seen before: a giant dragon head sticking out of the trees. Understandably intrigued, he decided to drive in the general direction of the dragon and see if he could find a way up to it. He did, and a week later he told me he had something to show me: the dragon tower. Apparently there's some sort of camping/recreation area in the hills of Nagawa, near where we live, and they have converted what looks like the remnants of a cell phone tower base into a giant dragon themed jungle-gym kids can climb up and play on. I'm sorry I didn't get a closer picture, but there was actually a man in the little guard tower at the bottom (apparently there's a dollar fee to play on the dragon) who was staring at us impassively, and I decided I would be too embarrassed if another person saw my grown-up self absolutely freaking out over how cool this thing is. Please accept this far away picture and my apologies. I was too embarrassed to go climb on the dragon that day, but it's made it onto my bucket list of things to do in Japan before I leave (yes, I'm actually making one), so be assured that you will see this thing again. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to go back on as nice a day as this one was, as you can possibly tell from the picture below. All the little hut thingies are covered picnic tables, in case you were wondering.
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