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Takeda Castle

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On April 2, we went to takeda castle . Takeda castle is known as Japanese Machu Pikchu because it is located at the top of the mountain and sometimes coverd with cloud. We first went to Osaka station and changed to highway bus to wadayama. This is hankyu bus highway station. The bus to wadayama started at 8:10 am, costs 3050 yen per an adult. I was amazed because we can use wifi in this bus for free! Arrived at wadayama station and changed to train. This train's door is manually opened. Arrived at takeda station around 11 am. We can see takeda castle above this mountain. We can climb the mountain but it is said very hard so we took bus. Taking off the bus and walked. About 15-20 min. walk, we finnaly arrived at the castle. This castle is recently maintained so it is well reserved. I liked it very much.

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.