Fireworks

The typical, somethings to see in Japanese summer festivals is Firework. This show usually continue 2 or more hours and 5,000-10,000 fireworks are set off. To see it, go there with your friends enough earlier, bring some food and drink, take your place to seat.. not to stand 2 hours!
As technology's development, they have many kinds of fireworks. The most famous thing is the complete round-ball-shape firework. From every direction it is seen as a perfect circle. Also they have new shapes like "Kitｔy", "Doraemon" and "Saturn". I expected to see them this time but I didn't. Actually I left there to have dinner with friends :D Anyway it was a wonderful night festival.

Funny Japanese Turistic Promotional Video

This is made as a turistic advertisement. This is made by a CM channel of Hokkaido which is the northern prefecture of Japan. One day, an alien came to Hakodate, a famous city in Hokkaido, and attacked there. So a robot fought against it, protecting historical heritages. You can see those in the back ground of the movie.


and, the funney CM channel's site is
http://www.omoide.tv/hakotube/
It is provided in 4 languages.

Fire Flower !!!!!!!

　

the Real Japan?

My mother likes nature very much. She wants to save the earth.. But sometimes, I don't understand her idea..

I came back to home for the first time in a year.
And I found it completely changed... When I was child, my father planted a japanese apricot tree and two plum tree, and a sakura(japanese cherry tree) in the yard. Now I see plum trees ivied by akebia, a sweet fruit (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2005/09/akebia_quinata_2.php), and willow-like-sakura.......
I love trees, I love flowers, I love forest, mountain, but I don't want to see the jungle in the yard!!!! Well, I will show a pair of before-after-photo in some other time.

Here, photos of the yard.

ivied plum tree

三重旅行２

ホテルから見える海は真珠の養殖場がいっぱい。けど真珠には手が届かなかったなあ・・・

その後は鳥羽水族館へ！！奇妙なモノがあちこちに・・
　　
　
　

三重旅行

難波発！　三重県、賢島まで電車旅行～

まっすぐ伸びる
ながーーいホーム
来る電車は１時間に１本・・・
青山町駅で乗り換えの電車待ち









伊勢うどん。めっちゃ太い！！普通のうどん２本分の太さ！
せっかくの機会なので、伊勢神宮の外宮を見学。
・・・実は何も見れなかった。壁が高くて・・・
木の高さとでかさだけは充分見れたんだけど・・・