From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

At 24 June, we went to takatsuki forest center  for barbeque. There are shiitake mushroom farm and we took them and bought them. After there, we went to temple near there. I happend to find  kabusan  temple, which is one of 33 sacred temples of west-erea. It is large and not crowded and I liked it very much.

Sometimes, we did takoyaki party. Takoyaki, which is very popular kansai(around osaka) foods.(tako means octopus) Our ingredients are below. - octopus - sousage - welsh onion - tempura scraps - takoyaki - cheese - sauce - mayonnaise - green laver - dried bonito - weak flour - egg - water - milk This is takoyaki machine. We bought it about 15 years ago about $8(800 yen). First pour takoyaki soup and put ingredients. Then add takoyaki soup. Then turn around them. It needs some skill. After picking up them, add sauce etc. Finish !

Today was terrible, very tired day. This morning, earthquake happend at 7:58 AM. It was 6 weak degree in Japanese indication and big earthquake. In japan, earthquake is not rare but Osaka is second biggest city and it was a big earthquake. I was on the way to Kobe and was at JR Osaka station and waited at platform. Suddenly platform was shaken and everybody sat down. And all trains were stopped. I had waited until noon at Osaka station, sitting at station stairs. But train were stopped except a few under subways. My office is at kobe, west from Osaka about 30 km and almost impossible to go there so I changed to Osaka office by subway. After contacting to kobe office by telephone, e-mail, I came back to my home after working time. At that time, I could take a keihan train to our home so I could go back to my home. I was very lucky because many train had still been stopping at that time. Near my home, some walls were broken. Our hirakata-city is very near to the cent

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This was final day of our short trip. We planed to walk around ushimado erea and go to okayama kourakuen. I didn't know about ushimado but I like this atmosphere. I liked there because it is not comercialized and this town is "normal" old japanese style as I was a child. Setouchi sea is very calm and I like this silence. There is maejima island and also ferry so we took it. It costed 250 yen(about $2) for a round-trip ticket and 5 minutes on board. Then we had lunch at kitchen kaizoku (pirate). And our last destination was okayama kourakuen and okayama-castle. Kourakuen is one of three japanese famous garden. Last year, we went to kanazawa kenroku-en which is also one of three so we went two of three. Kourakuen is very beautiful garden so we loved it. And okayama castle is a building constructed with reinforced concrete but we enjoyed the view around okayama-city at the top of the castle.