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Tokyo walking : New spot in Tokyo (akasaka, Kioicyo)

After long redeveloped, Kioi-cyo, Tokyo has new spot. Akasaka Pince Hotel was closed. And the place had nothing. Recently, there are new place. This building was owned by Li (re?) KIngdom family from china at 100s years ago. It is kept as important cultural assets.  I think it is not only for cultural assets but also for cafe. Because I saw several staff people just in front of this building. I have not entered to this building. This cultural assets is not only building but also this graden. You can see this garden for free. (I'm not sure that seeing the building needs fee or free..... And just border of the building and parkgarden has a deer. Big deer..... The height of the deer is larger than 4m.... (i think) In the garden park has many restaurants. The area has 3-4 floors. And you can enter them directory from Akasaka-mituke station . I like there area. Bellows are night view of this building. GardenPark in English :  http://www.tgt-ki

Chipstar Wasabi Flavor

Today, we try wasabi huraba of Chipstar. Chipstar is one of famous potato chips in japan. Today, we found a bottle of chipstar with wasabi flavor, There are many kind of potato chips with wasabi flavor. However, we have not seen wasabi flavor on Chipstar. So, we try to take them It is enough wasabi flavor. But it is not too strong. It was so nice flavor. We think it is on top 5 of wasabi flavor of potato chips.

Tokyo walking ; Edo culture. I found old Tokyo (EDO)

Now, Tokyo is one of famous cities in the world. Not as europa main cities, it is difficult to find classical parts in Tokyo. Most of them are modern building. I found some classic parts in tokyo as previous posts. Last week, I found other classic parts in tokyo. Most people in tokyo are moved from other city as me. However, almost 10% of population in tokyo are living in tokyo from hundreds years ago. Last period of Samurai was Edo period. And, people who were living in Edo (Tokyo now) had difference culture from Osaka , Kyoto, or other cities. Such people who live(d) in Tokyo are/were called  as EdoKko. If you have interest in EdoKko then check it from google, please. I can not explain what is EdoKko. Because I also don't about it in detail. However, I could have mood as Edo city in a festival in Hie-Shinto-Shrine. It is one of oldest shinto-shrine in Eod city. Almost(?) every year, it has festival on it. And it was 400 years memorial festival. Following photos are about

Lucidchart: Diagram drawing tool

There are many drawing tool. And it is difficult to choice one from such drawing set. Because there are many different features. Several years ago, I used OmmniGraffle (https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle) It is also good tool for drawing. Because OmmniGraffle has many pre-provided object not only UML diagram but also room-design, circuits-design, chemical diagram, etc, etc..... And ommnigraffle has good and easy to use UI. So, it is not so difficult to drawing diagram as me who is awkward. (^_^ ;;;) However, it is not easy to share data with several computers.You need several installation of ommigraffle onto individual mac, and you need to share your graph data using some way as using e-mail, network storages, dropbox, box.com, or some other way. If you forget to make data onto such storage, then you need to remake from zero. Recently (this 3 - 4 years), I switch to use Lucidchart. Lucidchart has more simple interface and objects than ommnigraffle. So, it is much easy to use. T

highway, Tokyo. Tokyowalking

Tokyo has many highways (syutoko). However, most highways in Tokyo are built before Tokyo  Olympic (1964 :   Tokyo Olympic ) . Tokyo was nothing just after 2nd war. maybe, you can check many photos in the Internet about Tokyo just after 2nd war. so, the largest question is why there long distances of highways in Tokyo were built only less than 20years? Because if they were built from nothing, then it was needed more than hundreds years. the answer is there highways were reused of moat around castle. Tokyo had been capital since 3-400 years ago( Edo period :  1603 – 1868 ). so, there moats were grown using for 300-400 years. As following photos are a part of highway. You can see a wall on right side on each photo. They are a trace of moat. If you have interest in this seen, you can see Shintomicyo. I pined on a map on this blog. Syutoko 

Tokyo Walking : Photo Vlog

Recently, I walk Tokyo, Japan with my wife. Our walking distance has began more than 10km for each day. Before that, I like to take photo when I walk around my life spaces, when I take bicycle and so  on. I uploaded some video when I went to cycling.  Well.... I took many photos after my mobile phone was changed. My new phone is snoy Xperia. Xperia have good quality of camera. And Xperia have good video maker which uses photos data. And, it is much easy to make small video than to use Mac Or PC softwares. So, I start to publish Tokyo walking Vlog, too.  Following video is around Kanda area, Tokyo, Japan.  I took them using Xperia and making video. I needed only 5-10 minutes.  Next video is around Ebisu (Yebisu), Tokyo Japan. Usually, we go there for buying wine. Around Ebisu station, we have favorite wine shop.  Like as above, there is not so special or not so good quality for video, however I think it is enough for vlogs.

Discover of tokyo "Omotesando area": it mixes modern design and old things

i may write some posts about life tracking devices. well, after i start to use such devices, our walking distance became larger .  it was two km was the largest distance for walking, when we got them. now, especially, after came back from europe, two km for our walking is normal thing. we walked 30km on beginning of this month. And, we walked 23km on last weekend. "I'll write review about such devices later. " today, i write about walking on one day of last weekend. I walked around omitesando, tokyo. it is an area between harajyuku and gaien park. Usually, the area are famous for modern and arts. I do not know well about tokyo. But, i also know littele bit about the area, even if i am such person. In that walking, I could find more new knowledge about omotesando. Following photo is a exact same as my image for Omotesando. Above photo is a french foods restaurant. And Cafes. Like as above, Omotesando has many shop which is famous for girls and