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Kiyosumi Garden
Today I went for a walk to Kiyosumi Garden, within a 15-minute walk from my house, because it was a sunny Japanese Thanksgiving Day and I wanted to get out of my house. These are photos. They make me feel at ease. The rest are uploaded on Flickr.
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Events at Kiba Park
Kiba Park is within a few minutes’ walk from my house. Various events are performed almost every week. Two weeks ago there was Oedo mikoshi matsuri (mikoshi festival) with tens of mikoshis. And, Koto Kumin Matsuri (Koto Ward citizens’ festival) was hold last weekend. There were many booths where staff members sold foods and items from all over the nation as well as foreign countries life Philippines, Bangladesh, Peru and more. The Kiba-no-kakunori (riding-on-a-square-timber) show is Kiba neighborhood’s traditional acrobatics. This is Fukagawa no chikaramochi (Fukagawa strong man show). It’s one of Fukagawa area’s traditional entertainments. Expert can do like this:
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Setting up my house
After I moved in the new house in Fukagawa I'm installing furniture necessary for daily life. Yesterday I went to IKEA at Funabashi to get a tall bookshelf and a table lamp (it was my first time to shop at IKEA!). At the same time I went to COSTCO at Makuhari to look for cool American groceries. After all I prefer COSTCO… A set-top-box for NTT's optical TV service was delivered to my house, so I have it installed. Now I can watch CNN and BBC World News you can't watch without it. I can finish setting up my house if I have a washing machine and a writing table […]
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Moving out to Fukagawa
Last month I was very busy with moving out of my house at Nerima-ku, Tokyo, because I had thrown my own car in May and I wanted to live where it was closer to downtown Tokyo and more convenient to live with public transportation only. As I got a bonus in June and I had enough money to move out, it was time for action. The new apartment where I started to live is at the Fukagawa area, Koto-ku. It's been a renowned neighborhood for almost 400 years located only within 5km east from Tokyo station. Plus, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's web site, these areas have relatively lower […]