10 favourite places - in Abiko

Our Man does like to do his own thing. But a little known side of him craves respect, immense popularity (and money), but will settle for at least a little appreciation of his TOP SECRET efforts to fight the forces of evil, armed as he is only with a knotted handkerchief (standard issue) and a green and red pen. So, with global domination in mind, he decided to join in the monthly blog matsuri (festival) thing that the good folk at Japan Soc run every month to spread the gospel according to St Ourmani Nabiko. This was his last hastily fired-off effort. Anyway, the deadline to enter this month's thing is, er, yesterday, so here is an even more hastily cobbled together post, that he's hoping by the grace of J-Soc makes it into the pot as one of the chosen few.

The latest mission impossible is to write about a favourite place in Japan. Well, of course that has to be Abiko. How to do the place justice (in 20 minutes or less)? By using a top 10 list of course. Here goes:

10. Abiko Saizeriya.

9. Abiko City Hall.

8. Park Bench with a view.

7. Our Man's local coffee bean shop.

6. Field of dreams (a stroll from Our Man's house).

5. Beware of kappa sign.

4. View from Our Man's front room.

3. The Abikan Self-Defence Fleet (not strictly speaking a place, but definitely a state)

2. The Abikan Inland Sea 

1. The missing No. 9 parking spot next to Our Man's 7-11.