Fire Hydrant cover common to many places. You have to check the “logo/sigil”!
This particular search turned into a real adventure! I started with a mistake getting off at Suruga-Oyama Station where I found out that the local Tourism Information had been closed for good for more than a year! I had to take a bus and walk for quite a while to find my target at the Fujinomiya Rest Area!
The circle logo/sigil means it belongs to Oyama Ashigara area!
My target! The only color Oyama manhole cover exhibited inside the information office at the Fujinomiya Rest Area! Great staff there incidentally!
Cute, aren’t they?
Pressurized air valve cover with Oyama Ashigara sigil!
I had found out previously that none of Oyama Ashigara covers could be found around Suruga Oyama Station so I asked the staff where I could find them. They replied theris was the only one to be seen. But I had seen photographs of uncolored ones near a station. So It could be only Ashigara Statio, the one station before!
I ignored the advice and decided to walk all the way to Ahigara Station!
On the way I found this different typeof fire hydrant cover!
The kanji for “water” inside the sigil meant it was a common cver used in many parts of Japan!
After a full hour walk my stubborness was rewrded!
Ashigara (unmanned) Station along the Gootemba Railway Line!
There were not one but half a dozen of them!
I also discovered this old fashioned rectangular fire hydrant cover with the Oyama Ashigara sigil!
Never give up! LOL
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