Along Arakawa-river. I found there good cycling road from sea to post 80kms. But survey will be needed to get start point of the river for comfortable cycling. . . . Read more
Fuel tank of Peugeot 306 makes me drive 900kms over. Great performance even though it is 15 years aging. . . . Read more
Takayama is a city located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Takayama was settled as far back as the Jōmon period. Takayama is best known for its inhabitants' expertise in carpentry. It is believed carpenters from Takayama worked on the Imperial Palace in Kyoto and on many of the temples in Kyoto and Nara.[citation needed] The town and its culture, as they exist today, took shape at the end of the 16th century, when the Kanamori clan built Takayama Castle. About a hundred years later the city came under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. However, the high altitude and separation from other areas of Japan kept the area fairly isolated, allowing Takayama to develop its own culture over about a 300-year period. . . . Read more
Mobilio, my uncle and aunt are doing well. It is good news and energy to us as picking harvest in this summer vacation. . . . Read more
Lake Tazawa is a caldera lake in the city of Semboku, Akita Prefecture, northern Japan. It is the deepest lake in Japan at 423 metres. The area is a popular vacation area and several hot spring resorts can be found in the hills above the lake. Akita Prefecture's largest ski area, Tazawa Ski Area, overlooks the lake. . . . Read more
Shooting stars around the place of my grand father. Because of my poor skill I could not take the picture of shooting star, but it looks great with only house of him. . . . Read more
Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century. Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere at a given place and using scientific understanding of atmospheric processes to project how the atmosphere will change. . . . Read more
