watashi to tokyo

Is Japan Cool

My PC is broke again, I can't type "u J n l" (I copy this) and I found letters I can't type are increasing now, this make me remind of the novel "Lipstick on an After-Image" of Yasutaka_Tsutsui, a letter of hiragana disappear from the world one by one and also things including the letter in it's name disappear too, great part is the letter disappear in his sentence of book! I am not sure the book is translate into another language, maybe not. It's impossible. Anyway every two years I have to buy new vaio, I think SONY Timer will be true.

ANA has campaign "Is Japan Cool?". Here is thier site.

New clean reasonable hotel in Kyoto "first cabin"

Kyoto is the most exotic and ancient capital in Japan, but also as tourist city, they have new type hotels. I picked before , very reasonable but clean and looks comfortable capsule hotel 9 hours in Kyoto.

This is a new one, first cabin. As it's name, their concept is airplane. they have business class room and first class room and they are bigger than capsule hotel but it's smaller than regular hotel and also divided by curtain basically. (but I am sure you can rock the curatin part).It looks very good and I am sure I will try this one when I go to Kyoto, coz hotel is just place to sleep for me, I am okay if they have good bed. What do you think?

 

Dragon appeared on the sky

We had earthquake today and dragon cloud in the sky in dragon year! What will happen this year?

 

Aum fugitive who the run for more than 17 years, appeared to the police

2012 was started this amazing news. One of fugitive of Aum Shinrikyo incident turn himself in Police in Marunouchi. He is Makoto Hirata, he has been on the run for more than 17 years and he appeared to the police at11:50 on new year eve and said "I wanted to he wanted to end this, he wanted to leave the issues of the past behind. He is thought that he is realted to a few muerder and kidnapping.

Happy New Year 2012

It's dragon year. I think it will be great year for us.

thank you for 2011, see you soon in 2012

I finished Osouji (big cleaning) and eating Toshikoshi Soba (Year-End Soba), traditionally eaten in Japan on New Year's Eve to wish long life and fortune of next year.

Now red-white singing contest and Can't laugh comedy on TV but I don't need them, I just want to spend quietly tonight. Thank you for this year, see you soon next year.

Nose fire bug

Merry Christmas from Tokyo!

Such holly night, here is useless stuff for your nose. "Nose fire bug". It has senser for temperature.

"The Zen of Steve Jobs" and his master

A book "The Zen of Steve Jobs" will realese, Steve Jobs learned zen from a monk Otogawa Kobun Chino of Sotoshu.Here is a good article about him. About Soto zen, here is a movie page.

Here is a video show the life in Zen temple. You will think it looks very tough and hard, actually I agree with that!! I can't live even a few days, but you don't need have such strict one, you can take essential idea of zen, "make it simple!", maybe Steve did it.

Anyway I do meditation everyday, I can tell, it is great.

Here is another video, easy to watch.?

Let's go Kyoto app

I love table game, especially German game. I must tell you I addicted to Carcassonne and play it every way to work and home in train. Of course table game is fun more to play with friends on the table! But it is not popular in Japan and it is very hard to find people and place to play. Then finally one shop opened in Shibuya "German game space Shibuya". Game guide will choose game from their 100 collection and teach how to play, enter charge is 2000yen for 2h30m. You can bring foods and drink. This is my dreamed place.

This is JR(Japan railway) Tokai's app. "Let's go Kyoto", you can see Kyoto in autumn by free app, check it out.

This is funny topic! "TIL that only a quarter of Japanese people eat sushi more than once per month". Yes, actually I ate sushi maybe two month ago. I think I ate Italian or Chinese more than Sushi, coz it's cheaper! But of course we like sushi, sometimes I eat good one but it's really expensive. Near my home, there is a famous good sushi place, the shop get fresh fish from Tsukiji every morning and they do courteous and creative work on each sushi. Looks good right? but it cost over 10000 yen at night.

Breakfast in the world. I love Hawaii one or Denmark one, Japanese breakfast looks bad. When you stay in Japanese Ryokan, this is typical Japanese breakfast, usually we have a piece of fish, natto, and egg(raw or cooked).

Hello again

no update for one month! this is ridiculous, I didn't not know such long. I couldn't find topics i want to write actually,

When I started this blog, there were not many English blog about Japan, so it's was fun to tell anything. but now there are many many good, interesting blogs about Japan, what's happning in Japan. So I am still thinking what is good to writre...difficult but I will try.