Posts

Takeda Castle

Image
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

Image
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

Image
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.