blog#9: Tsujido, my neighborhood (Tomoki)

I want to introduce you around my house. There is the Midori park behind my house.
 The park is covered with many pine trees. I used to play there with my friends all day.  Crows make nests every season. They are noisy in the morning.

 from my veranda

There is a field too in front of my house. Many kinds of vegetables and fruits are planted. And the vegetables and fruits are sold in a small box. They are all 100yen. The field's owner is a regular customer at my part-time camera shop. He sometimes gives us many vegetables. He really is a nice guy.

very small field. eggplant is growing now.

I live in Tsujido station's south side. South side is not flourishing. But the station's north side is flourishing, I have told once in this blog. There is a large shopping mall, terrace mall and taller buildings and mansions.

Tsujido become so nice and useful place now. Please come!

this is Tsujido station's plat home.

Blog#9: Takaido my neighborhood (Takehiko)

Hi, I am Takehiko. I have told Takaido's information once. Today, I will tell you new information. Takaido is part of Suginami. My house is located 5 minutes from Takaido station and in front of ring road No.8 (環状八号線). So my house is convenient for go out.Takaido is 17 minutes to Shibuya for Keio Inokashira Line, and go with 9 minutes to Kichijoji. And, Kanto bus is running. The platform of takaido station used by railway fans to take photos of the train. This spot is also used in the filming of the movie and CM.

Ring road No.8's photo which took at Takaido station

Railways fans with taking picture

There is commercial facility called " Keio Retnade Takaido " in the station building. For example, restaurant, barber shop, DPE (photo) shop, dental clinic, bookstore, convenience store. The word 'Retnade' is coin word that combines 'retoño' means young sprout in Spanish word, and 'Promenade' in French word. I often use 'Coco-Ichibanya' of this facilities. (I like little hot curry rice)

Coco-Ichibanya

My neighborhood is much convenient, but there is no cheap supermarket near my house,  so I always go to good supermarket by bicycle. It takes 15 minutes. Please tell me good solution of my shopping!!

Brog#9 my neighborhood (Masaki)

Hello, I introduce my group member my neighborhood.  I have lived in Musashi-kosugi in Kawasaki city since I was born.

Do you kwon this? Maybe I think Musashi-kosugi is well-known as developing town. Musashi-kosugi is called "musako" or "kosugi" etc. I call kosugi. I think kosugi is convenience because there are many shops in "EKIBIRU"  TOKYU  SQUARE
 near station for exampe UNIQLO , ABCMART , YURINDOU. TOKYUHANDS, MARUETU, MR,DOUGHNUT,KENTUCKY and so on. There are many kind of shops.  It is very useful for me so I like Musashi-kosugi.  Please come here Thank you!!!

Blog #8: Kawaguchi, my neighbourhood! (Thao Nguyen)

     For this blog, I'm going to introduce you my neighborhood, where I live, Kawaguchi.
Do you know Kawaguchi City of Saitama? I am sure that you must have heard about the name before.
   "Kawaguchi city is the second most populated city in Saitama Prefecture after its capital city - Saitama City", briefly described Wikipedia. Yes, it is quite a big city, the second largest in Saitama Prefecture, and a quite young one too, where the rate of people over the age of 65 is approximately 18.5%, lower than the national average (around 24%). Around the Kawaguchi  station, you will probably find it really clamorous with many groups of people who are busy with their own business. Especially in front of the station, it is common to see there are many young people who play music and sing, some other people donating small animals for ones who want them as pets.

A horse club was enrolling new members.

    There are also two big banks: Mitsui Sumitomo and Resona, a shopping center called Sogo and an entertainment building called Casty. Casty is one of my favourite buildings because it is located in front of the station and has lots of interesting things inside it. There are a gym, a massage center, some language classes, restaurants, coffee shops, fashion shops, a 100yen shop, a drug store and a barbershop too. And all are good and cheap.
  Although I have lots of things to do around Kawaguchi station, my neighborhood is not exactly there. My house is located in front of Nishi-kawaguchi Station and it just takes me less than 3 minutes to catch a train. There is just only one line you can use from this station and it is Keihin-Tohoku Line, one of the busiest and most crowded line in Kanto area.
   I live in the seventh floor of a mansion and the scene outside the window of my room is always ｌight and makes me feel calm.
   Although around my mansion there are lots of  supermarkets, restaurants, drug stores, convenient stores of all kinds as well, I usually use my bicycle to travel farther to the rest of the city. Sometimes, I stop at a restaurant I don't know, even never heard about its name, to enjoy my meal and then continue my journey. Cycling around Kawaguchi every week is one of my favourite activities. It helps me understand much more about the city where I live. Now I know where I can buy good stationery or furniture cheapest, where I can have a great Pizza 'Tabehodai' course with just 1000yen, where I can enjoy the best Udon for my taste, and etc...

Donkihote

   The price in Kawaguchi is much cheaper than in Tokyo.

   The place that I enjoyed the most is a shopping mall called Ario.

 It is located in the middle between Kawaguchi and Nishi-Kawaguchi station. Ario is very large, it has lots of fashion shops, pet shop, supermarkets, food courts and a cinema in it as well.
My neiborhood is pretty good for me and I feel satisfied living there.

   

Blog #8: My neighborhood(Sumire)

 I live in Shinanomati, Shinjyuku. It has no good shopping place or restaurant but there are many famous places and great natural surroundings. One of the most famous palace is my next, Koumeitou. This is a party of Japan and effects to Japanese politics. In the past, when Japanese president changed to Mr.Abe, I could see he was coming into the Koumeitou building from the entrance of my house. I think it was the really unique experience.

The back of my house, there is Meijikinennkan which is one of the most traditional marriage ceremony place in Japan. That links to Meijijingu. And it is also my place of work. It has a large  beautiful garden in front of the hole for ceremonies.

There are so many place I want to introduce more for example the National stadium, a national museum, Akasaka Imperial Palace and so on. However, the row of ginkgo trees is my favorite. Here it is.

 It is superb,isn't it. But the real scene is much more wonderful. Recently it lasted cold days so the leaves will turn yellow well this year. I believe it is worth of coming so you could try to see it! :) I cannot say my neighborhood is useful because of the lack of convenience store and so on but here is the most wonderful place in Japan I believe.

Blog#7: A cool thing I can do with my cellphone? (Thao Nguyen)

 Hello everyboby!
 The topic this week is:  What is a cool thing that you can do with your cellphone? and my answer is Evernote. Evernote is a Notes application that I often use with my Iphone. Here is Evernote 's Symbol!

  With an Evernote application, I can use my Iphone to take a memo or write down some new ideas about my report every time and everywhere I want. And then, I can easy check the contents by signing in to my Evernote homepage from my laptop, save important memos into my computer.
  You can also take pictures or record something and show your feelings at the time by writing some comment under the pictures or audio files.
  Furthermore, Evernote Web has a lot of interesting features. For example, with Evernote Recommend Conner, you would know about new good books, movies, applications etc...

  Well, in conclusion, I really recommend you this application. It is really convinient for your study! There are many versions of Evernote that you can choose too, so Have fun with it!!!

#7: My greatest assistant(Sumire)

Nowadays we can do anything by the smartphone, especially most of us use iphone. I have also used iphone4S since I was in a high school so this is certainly a part of my life. Generally saying, a main feature of iphone is that we can customize our own cellphone by various kinds of app. However, there is a grater function in iphone. This is Siri. If you want to summon Siri, you can push a home butfton longer then usual. Siri help you well for example if you want to make a phone call and you tell the name of the person to Siri, she will suddenly bring the number of the person's phone from your address book or i f you want to know how to make cookies, she will also search it on the Internet. In addition, sometimes she will be a someone to talk to. To my surprise, she can give me a really smart reply like this. 

This is why Siri is smart enough to ask our requests. And thus iphone by Apple is loved by people all over the world.