< Monday, April 24th > The Pleasures Of The Table In Spring, Takenoko Try to click. You can see all photos at once,like a slide show. (Click any button on any page to stop.) "Takenoko"(a bambooshoot) has put out shoots at the bamboo grove located in the "Suzume no Oyado Ryokuchi Park", Meguro-ku, Tokyo since the middle of April. Takenoko, smelling nice and being crisp to eat, is a tipical food of Spring in Japan. Meguro was famouse for the leading good-quality Takenoko-growing district through the country until the early Showa(1926�`1988). The present Meguro is a residential areas and very few people know about it. Takenoko Keep Out Sign The Beginning Of The Producing Takenoko go to Top page