I Go to a Cafe, Michikusa

My wife and I went to a Cafe Michikusa the other day.

The cafe stands on the top of a hill just twenty minutes car drive away from home.

Customers can see a forest view while eating and can feel its quiet atmosphere.

The cafe owner also had collection of antiques and was selling some of them for reasonable prices.

I Go to Kanda-Surugadai in Tokyo

I went to Tokyo to attend a workshop of software  development for two days at the end of last year.

The workshop was held at a building near Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral or Nikorai-do on the hill at Kanda Surugadai.

It is said that the Cathedral was completed on March 8, 1891, construction having begun seven years earlier.

I had a bowl of needle soup for the fist day lunch and a dish of curry with a pork cutlet for the second day lunch on 17th floor of Meiji university's cafeteria.

A Happy New Year, 2017

I wish all visitors to my blog enjoy new year holidays and have a wonderful happy new year.

I Go to Heike House Musemum

I went to 'Heike House Museum' with my wife in this autumn.

It was a sunny peaceful day when we visit the site during my five-day-consecutive-day-off vacation.

My company gives every employees a five-day-consecutive-day-off once a year.

One of places we went spending the days was the old Japanese soldier Heike's monument.

I Go to a Japanese Restaurant, 'Nonoji'

November 3rd is Culture Day in Japan and, at the same time, it is our wedding anniversary.

It was our 25th anniversary on the day.

Yes, we got married a quarter century ago, in the year 1991.

We took a picture for our memory and went to a Japanese restaurant 'Nonoji' for lunch.

Five years ago, we cerebrated the twentieth anniversary like this.

I Go to Utsunomiya Museum of Art

 Star Wars exhibition was being held on the day we visit the museum.

The day, November 3rd, is Culture Day and a national holiday in Japan.

The purpose of the day is promoting culture, the arts, and academic endeavor.

The local government makes it a rule to offer admission free at various municipal facilities including the museum on the day.

The museum has a huge garden next to the exhibition building.

I Go to a Stock Farm

My wife and I went to Ozasa Ranch of Kirifuri highland in Nikko city a couple months ago.

Kirifuri Heights are about 1,200 meters above sea level in the northwestern part of Tochigi prefecture..

Even it was early autumn, a cold winter breeze was blowing in a foggy atmosphere.

Farm animals were gently browsing in the field.

I Visit Traditional Japanese Shops in Narita City

 There were many shops which kept a traditional Japanese style tiled roof and having a warehouse on its first floor.

 On our way home after visiting the city, we had a dinner of boiled oysters on steamed rice with egg, fried oysters, a cold soybean Tohu, Soba noodles and Azuki bean sweets. All of them were delicately Japanese flavored, tasted more than perfect and reasonably priced.

Closest Supermoon Since 1948 Comes Up

It is said that the closest supermoon since 1948 came up November 13 and 14.

I was not able to see it due to the bad weather on the day.

I took those pictures almost one year ago in  New Caledonia located in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

While walking along beach side, I coincidentally found a beautiful full moon.

I have not seen such a perfect full moon since then.

The hotel my wife and I stayed near the beach

Japan Cup Cycle Road Race 2016

Japan Cup Cycle Road Race was held on a road in front of my condominium home the other day.

My wife and I went out to watch the race

Thousands of passionate spectators lined the roadsides of central Utsunomiya city on the day to see the exciting bike race

Team TREK led the race from the beginning to the end.

The guy, second from the left was the winner of the race.

I Take a Stroll Along Omote-sando Street to Shinsho-Ji Temple

I guess that houses, hotels and shops along Omote-sando main street to the temple were preserved by the local government.

The architectural style of those buildings must be a traditional Japanese one.

I felt as if I were transported back in time to the middle of  Showa era or the 1950's.

The only silver lining of cancellation of Taiwan trip was that we could enjoy our short visit to Shinsho-Ji temple in Narita city.

I Go to Narita-san Shinsho-ji Temple

The scene I was taking a photo.

After having canceled the trip, my wife and I went to a famous temple near Narita International Airport just half an hour driving distance.

Contrary to the weather in Taiwan, it was sunny gentle on the day in Narita city.

Every buddhist building there was elaborately designed and decorated.

It can be said "totally awesome. " 

Journey to Taiwan Is Cancelled

I had been planning to take a one-week-break from my office and go to Taiwan.
But the flight to the country was unbelievably delayed due to a typhoon directly hit the island.

My wife and I asked a ground staff about a prospect of flights: she said that the severe tropical storm would probably affect another couple of days because of the slow moving speed.

So, we cancelled the journey, a reserved parking lot and came back home by car.

I ever have experienced long delay of flights but it was the first time for me to cancel the travel itself.