When sometime this year Shizuoka City decided to adorn the Suruga Office of the Shizuoka City Hall with an original colored sewer manhole cover, very few among the local media and even less among civil servants realized that the Toro Ruins (located in Suruga Ku, Shizuoka City) were already featured on a rectangular manhole cover which can be seen here and there in the northern half of Shizuoka City and even near Shizuoka Railway Station!
Apart of the Toro Ruins it featured Mount Fuji, the Abe River and green tea fields!
Check HERE for more information on the Toro Ruins!
The new cover was first exhibited inside the Suruga Office of the Shizuoka City Hall!
Many visitors commented that it was one of the cutest in Japan!
The City came up with the nickname of “Torobe” for the “Toro Ruins Character”!
Shizuka City is famous for its strawberry fields located by the sea south of the Toro Ruins!
And Mount Fuji of course!
As it is on the pavement in front of the Suruga Office of Shozuoka City Hall!
Note it is the unique sole location!
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