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Kinkakuji temple, etc

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This was 3 days national holiday so we went to Kyoto around kinkakuji. I had visited there two times before, but it is our family's first visit since my son was born. Kinkakuji is a little inconvinient to go because it is located north west of kyoto where there is no train. Bus is only way of public transportation so my image is tha  bus is always crowded and move slowly due to traffic jam, that's why we didn't go this district. Anyway, we decided to go there, and my wife agreed with this plan because kinkakuji is among world heritage so she thinks that it is good for his education. We took keihan railway, changed to bus No. 59 at sanjo-keihan, got off at kinkakuji mae. Especially last bus stop (kinkakuji dou to kinkakuji mae) was in heavy traffic jam, took 15 min in this section, so it was about 1 hour's bus tour. Before arriving the last bus stop, I found the name of district "murasakino(紫野)" and I was surprised, because the name of mu

Good quality, very low prices

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I likes things that are low prices, good quality. These days, there are many such things around us. It is very good. For example, yesterday we went to newly opend shoes shop which was opend yesterday in limited period (until May). This shop is "shoes HIRAKI" famous for low prices. These shoes costs 1000 yen (10$) for each ! Before, these things are not good design and not good quality, but these days, they are not. I like both (my wife and son also bought so all are about 6000 yen.. ) I also bought MP3 player at amazon which is about 3500 yen and I like it very much. (also last week, I bought 2G memory for the netbook which I'm now using and cost1500 yen) I think net shopping like amazon promotes this trend, but in Japan there are 100 yen shop exists and it is also big impact. 100 yen shop matchs japanese mentality who likes cheap and sensible things very much.

Home security system

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Last week, we bought panasonic home-security system . We didn't care about such things but recently our neibours had some troubles like their garbage bags been searched, finding some strange persons around there, and they bought security camera or took part in home-security services. So we decided to buy such system. There are many such system in amazon.co.jp and we selected panasonic's one because it is very sophiscatedly designed system. It costs about 20,000 yen including home-security hub and outdoor-type camera with sensing devices included, which are communicating using wifi(direct) and also connecting with our home's wifi rooter, so we can monitor camera sensing from inside or outside home. If it detected some strange person, it tells our smartphone ! Very amazing. At first, I read some information which said that it required fixed IP address if we can accept alarm notices outside our home, so I thought that we can't use this function because we don't have fi

Ski at biwako valley

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Last saturday was our first skiing on this winter season. This winter, snow is so little that our ordinary ski resorts were almost difficult to play so we changed our destination to biwako valley ski resort. This day, the weather was perfect so we enjoyed skiing very much ! This time too our son joined ski school.Ski school's fee is a little expensive (¥5000). He can ski well in normal slope, but learning basic method is good for beginner for future progress.

Winter holiday at shizuoka

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4 days has passed since we ( I and my son ) came back to my hometown shizuoka (my wife had been working so she  came here today) 28,Dec. at Kyoto station. Arrived at shizuoka station, my mother was waiting for my son. Regular lunch at sho-an when we came back to my hometown. We loved shrimp-fried bowl. From this shop. Mt fuji is very beautiful in winter-time. Dinner at my parents house. Fuku-ichi  was crowded with people buying their new-year foods. It is near our parents house. 3rd day(30, Dec) we went here  to buy eggs "biou-ran". This egg tastes very good so my parents buy here when we come back. This is riverbed of abe-river. There is heliport. We always came here because it's near home and we love this atmosphere. My son and father were searching beautiful stone. I had done this when I was same age as my son. There are many memory around abe-river.

New desktop PC

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We had been using HP desktop PC for 6 years and suddenly it broke down. It was due to hard-drive's brokage and I tried to replace HD but it might be that motherboard of this PC was also broken according to the analysis of PC shop so I decided to buy new one. We'are setting PC in our living room so compact one is better (HP's one was all-in-one type) so we decided to buy all-in-one type. HP's internet-order type was cheapest 6 years ago but this time, lenovo PC is cheapest so we ordered it( ideacentre AIO 510S ). It is 23 inch and pentium iCore5 model. I was very surprised that it was deliverd 2 days after I ordered it! It was thin and stylish compared with our former one(HP) so we loved it very much. Price are 85,000 yen (about $800), almost same as former one(HP) and very cheap compared with desktop pc saled at real shop.It was windows10 pre-instoled one so we could soon use it. Surprising thing is that it only contain basic instruction of how to set up. It is like IKE

Akashi city

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We went to akashi city because my company's branch held a track meet. The athletic field is located inside akashi park in front of akashi station. After cheering, we walked around akashi city. Akashi city is famous for akashi-yaki, which is a kind of tako-yaki. We walked along the shopping street and there are several akashi-yaki shops. We entered this shop because it shows that it is 550 yen($5) including 15 peaces of akashi-yaki for one person. Akashi yaki is called tamago(=egg)-yaki. The surface of ako-yaki is solid but surface of akashi-yaki is soft, shaped like an egg (color is yellow like egg) so it might be called tamago-yaki, I guess. It tasted very good. This is famous akashi-yaki shop. Over this shop, there are sea-shore and we walked aroud there. It was fine day so we enjoyed walking around akashi-city. Akashi city is not big city but I liked this city.

Hirakata T-site

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Hirakata city is good place to live but there aren't many fashionable places. On the north of hirakata, there are kuzuha town and there are kuzuha mall which is most fashinable place in hirakata. But recently most fashinable place was opend. This is hirakata T-site. T-site was built at where departmentstore was built. It is old-fashion store, so it was closed and this building was renewally opend. This building was organized by Tsutaya,  so this is called "T"-site. Tsutaya is unique campany which deals with books, CD/DVD/blue-ray rental and many building is housing sturbucks coffee so atmosphere is very good. Recently this company produces unique bookshops and also handling SIM free smartphone. This campany was first started at hirakata-city, that's why T-site was opend in such normal city. (T-site was located several city around Japan, maybe number of this shop is under 10) This shop houses many shops like glossary shop, wear shop, etc and there ar

Making good usage of commuting

From last July, I've been commuting about 2 hours from my home to my working place so I have certain amout of time at commuting. Commuting is very precious time for me because I can keep certain amount of time for study. Studying English is one option but I don't want to spend much time for it. English is just a tool so if I have a time for studying english, I want to spend time for another things. Studying English is merely like a machinely training for me. It doesn't need intelligence. I don't want to waste my precious time for such a training. (But english is good tool to get huge amount of information so I'm listening english materials at walking, transition period of station because I can't read books in such a situation ) By the way, first priority is reading books. I often read science articles using RSS feed via smartphone but book is special for me. Good books contain wonderful knowledge and wisdom so we can get such informations about $20-$30