Tokyo Rambling

Street Car Arakawa Line

Metropolitan Street Car Arakawa Line runs from Minowa to Waseda in the north area of Tokyo. Running speed is as slow as 13 km/hour with many stations. It is a access of many people without having automobiles. Many other street car line were abolished because they disturbed traffics of automobiles. Arakawa line remains because its railways are separated from the road of automobile.

I spent child days near the Arakawa Line.  I hope that the Arakawa line perdures.

Sugamo Jizou Temple

Sugamo is located in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Sugamo is a town famous for the Jizou Temple draining off acicula. In fourth, fourteenth, and twenty-fourth day of every month, a small festival is held and the Sugamo street is crowded by aged people.Sugamo is also famous as Harajuku for elder women.

Today, Sugamo was quiet because the festival was not held.

Climbing Free

In Japan, free climbing has been gradually spreading. Although a free climbing is one of the most thrilling sports, it also belongs to one of modest sports. Recently comics regarding the free climbing was published and the free climbing became  popular.

I was also interested in the free climbing and have read "Climbing Free" by Lynn Hill with much interesting the other day.

Mac Mini has come.

I'm a heavy PC user. My computer experience is for twenty three years. I had used the  Macintosh ten years ago and discontinued it five years ago.

I have become Mac user again because I would like to use Osirix , which is a free software for medical image processing functioning only on the Mac OS.  I think Apple will regenerate Mac because of its beautiful software.

Autumn has come.

Eventually, autumn has come in Japan. I dislike summer because it is muggy in Japan. It takes one hour  and a half to come to my work place from my home.  I have much perspiration during the commutation.

I like autumn. In autumn, I will eat many fruits while reading books or listening to musics. In Japan, there are many kinds of fruits: such as  pome, chestnut, apple, and grape. 

I went to the Roppongi Museum last week.

In the Roppongi Museum,  Notes of Leonard Da Vinci have been featured. I was astonished to know many products of illusterated notes by Da Vinci. I felt interest in the drawing by the left-handed man and mirror-writing. In the selection, the Codex Leicester, holder of which is Bill Gates,  is included.

Also, I enjoyed myself of outlook from high altitute because the Museum is located on the 52 th floor. From the observatory, I looked around Tokyo city.