A Japanese sign detailing the rules for use of a public park, including that stays are not to exceed 24 hours, that fires are permitted only in a hibachi or camp stove, and that tents are not to be pitched where they will be a nuisance.
A Japanese sign with information on “Biwaichi” bicycle courses, including a map of Lake Biwa with descriptive markers for twenty-nine sites dotted around the lake.
A sign reading (in English translation): “19: Sakushima Garden / Matsuoka Tetsu 2006–2009 / The hill at the center of the garden evokes the four actual mountains of Sakushima, to wit Ōyama, Tatsutayama, Akibayama, and Fujiyama. There are stairs on Fujiyama, so please climb up to find a different view. Enjoy beautiful blooms, of daffodils in January, of plums in February, and of Japanese wild radish in late March / Please read!: NOTICE to all users of Sakushima Garden: climb the mountain by the stairs only; carry your litter back with you; dangerous activities and fires are strictly prohibited; photographs in poor taste uploaded to the Internet will be reported / (on the hinged box attached to the sign) Please put back the stamp and close the lid”
A bicycle with rear panniers parked in front of a traffic island inside a parking lot. A bush grows in the traffic island, and a sign peeks out of the bush reading (in English translation) “Number Five Parking Lot”. To the left of the traffic island a sign in Japanese asks drivers to turn off their engines when parked.
Two buses stand in a parking lot. On the side of one, the operator’s name Biwa Kankou (Biwa Tourism) is written (for Lake Biwa, lying to the north and east of Kyoto).
