Blog#8: My neighbourhood(Miyuki)

 Hi, I'm Miyuki. I live in Wako city in Saitama prefecture and my neighbourhood is located by Wakoshi station on Fukutoshin line, Yurakutyo line and Tobu Tojo line. It takes about 10 minutes to get this station on foot. When I go to university, I use Fukutoshin line.
 I think it is good point that rail service is convenient. Please look at this picture of electrical scoreboard of Wako station. Fukutoshin line's terminal point is Shibuya, but connect Tokyu Toyoko line at this stasion. So we can easily go to Yokohama and China town.

 



 

 However, convenient route is also but point. This picture is the passage in  front of Wako station and its suburbs. There are only houses and bars. Because of convenience, Wako have become a bedroom town and the culture of this city seems to be lost.



Blog#9: Obukuro (Kyoka)

Hi, this is Kyoka. I live in Obukuro. It is part Koshigaya city in Saitama. The station near my house is Obukuro station on Tobu skytree line. It takes 5 minutes from my house to Obukuro station on my foot. It is convenient that there is the station near my house. Obukuro station was renewed this week, although it was very old.

Obukuro station

Although the station became beautiful, stores are not in the surroundings of the station. There are supermarket but there aren't shopping mall. It is very inconvenient.

The surroundings of my house are very quiet. I can hear the sound of insect in the night of autumn. It is confortable town for sleeping.

Here is the view from my house. It is a quiet residential section.

Obukuro is inconvenient for shopping but it is easy to live.

Blog #8: Higashirinkan, my neighbourhood (Kumi)

Hi, this is Kumi. I live in Higashirinkan. It is a part of Sagamihara City. The station near my house is Higashirinkan station on Odakyu line. It takes 10 minutes from my house to the station on my foot. Higashirinkan have small shopping street. But it's a residential area, so there isn't a big shopping mall. However Higashirinkan is very good place to live in. Today, I'd like to introduce the good points of Higashirinkan.

First, this area has a lot of hospitals.  Look this google map around Higashirinkan station.

These red points are all hospitals! When I feel bad, I can arrive at a hospital quickly. Moreover one of these "Toshibarinkan Hospital" is the large hospital we can be hospitalized. And Higashirinkan have many school, too. The number of hospitals and schools is one of the most important things to live there, I think.

Second, my area have the row of beautiful cherry blossoms.

This photo is taken in March. These cherry blossom trees are very old, so they are very huge and magnificent! They are growing in Toshibarinkan Hospital. My family go to view the cherry blossoms every year. I'm happy every spring!

Third, Higashirinkan is quiet, but next station "Sagami-ono" is flourish.

It takes 15 minutes from Higashirinkan to Sagami-ono by bicycle. I don't like that big area is too near from home, I like this distance. In Sagami-ono, there is a good station building "station SQUARE", a big shopping mall "Bono Sagami-ono", and a department store "Isetan". Many Higashirinkan people go to shopping in holidays or work in part-time job in Sagami-ono. I work in part-time job there, too. And Sagami-ono have a good concert hall "Green Hall" and a large library.

Higashirinkan is quiet, but not inconvenient area. I love Higashirinkan.

Blog#7: Sleep Meister(Kyoka)

Hi, I'm Kyoka. I have an iphone4S and I introduce "Sleep Meister". This application is alarm, but it is not ordinary alarm. "Sleep Meister" records a sleep cycle. Alarm is sounded with memorizing a sleep cycle when sleeping lightly. 

It is a right icon.

 



Sleeping hours are inputted and various sleep data is recorded. Alarm sounds when you wake up easily before setting time. Therefore, you can wake up comfortably in the morning.



You can see sleeping balance because record becomes a graph. If you are poor at waking up in the morning, you should use this application. This application is very convenient.

Blog#7: A cool thing I can do on my cellphone (Yuka)

Hi, I'm Yuka. I have an iPhone4s and I often use Japanese dictionary application. This application name is Daijirin(大辞林). I introduce this application today. Because, I am using this application when I want to know about new words and things and so on. If you use this application, you can look up anything.

 I often use this application!

For example, we are well into autumn recently. When I want to know autumn words of Japanese, I use this application. This application equipped with index of every season. So I tap autumn index, then I look at many different autumn words. Another thing, we can look up autumn flowers and stars. I am enjoy very much! 

This application equipped with index of every season.

When I am looking up some flowers, I want to know the flower's form. Then I use this application, I look up the flower and look at the flower's picture. This function is useful when I want to search for the flower.

Daijirin（大辞林） has flower's pictures.

Of course, Daijirin(大辞林） doesn't have flower's pictures only. This application has all kinds of pictures. We can look at a variety of pictures. For example, about Japanese culture and history, all kinds of animals...and so on. 

If you have a iPhone, I recommend that you get a this dictionary application Daijirin（大辞林）. You can enjoy to look up everything.

Blog#7: A cool thing I can do on my cellphone(Miyuki)

 Hi, I'm Miyuki. I have Xperia Z, Android phone and I introduce "Google Sky Map". This is in the white folder and the left icon.

 This application can watch stars in the whole sky and every seasons and every time (even in the daytime!). Since I join in the earth-science club, it is very useful on astronomical observation. For example, this is the Plough, the Great Bear:

 And this is the Little Bear and the polestar:

 

 

 Depending on establishment, we can confirm names of fixed stars, planets and so on. Whether you are familiar with astronomy or not, please try it.

Blog #7: The guide of shelter (Kumi)

Hi, this is Kumi. I have iPhone 4S, and today I introduce the application in my iPhone, "The guide of shelter (避難所ガイド)". I installed this because of my father's recommendation.

This application give us  the information we have to need when the catastrophe (such as major earthquake) happens. The users can know where they should escape and what it happens and how their families are doing.

For example, when the large earthquake happens, this application uses GPS and search the shelter near from us. It show us not only where shelter is but also how high the shelter is. Maybe this information is more useful at the town near the sea than at the city. The high of shelter is important for escaping from TSUNAMI. We can see these information at anytime, so we should know where the shelter is before the large earthquake happens, I think.

 After evacuation, if you want the official information, it shows you official twitter's account. When the disaster, everyone want to catch the  information, so official homepage is more difficult to access than twitter. In this case, twitter is very useful.

And it introduce us how to contact to our family. Many people already know this, but there is a few people who  don't know this. This information is useful for such people.

 Fortunately, I've never been a situation this is necessary. However Japan is the country a lot of earthquakes happen. We should ready for catastrophes such as big earthquake. I recommend you this application "The guide of shelter".