2011年9月27日火曜日

When in TOKYO

Places:  Tokyo Area ( Shinjuku - Harajuku - Shibuya - Shin Okubo - Tokyo Disney Sea) & Hamano, Chiba

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楽しかった!今度、東京で 本当に 巣晴らし。。。

The story behind "When in Tokyo":

I will never forget when I was in Tokyo. It was an unfortunate event when suddenly shocked my episode of excitement  to the metropolis. Luckily,  it was not so really called turmoil despite it frighten me enough. Only due to seconds of shock by the earthquake, I stranded around more than half hour inside the train. I don't know how you would feel when  your boarding train is static over the long sea bridge for quite long time as it happened to me.

That time, I felt the triggered warning alarm train provoked much worries to passengers. Even I could see the train conductors were fussy handling telecoms  line ( maybe trying contact with railway operation center), since I was at first car.  At first shock, they was trying to slowly move the train from stranded on the bridge but it seem couldn't work after another shocks impacted on the railway system. Their anxiety showed something bad might happen if the bridge has problem. Tsunami might sway the train on the bridge or the train might submerged into the sea are the bad guesses might you wouldn't want to happen. But, I realize the only One Hope at such critical moment is by keep praying to Allah to get serenity. Praise to Him, lastly nothing bad happened to us.

After went back to Osaka city, I found myself very lucky having safe journey. Just on the day of my arrival here, I got news the other disastrous typhoon struck in Tokyo. I am grateful to Him because now I stay in Osaka. My memory in Tokyo bring me a lot to remember :==)



My Travel Info:

Now, let's put the story left behind my history.
Actually, today’s entry, I’m really pleasure to share another short travel to Tokyo during this summer. When anyone mention about Tokyo, I bet some of us can imagine the trademarks of this metropolis city. Maybe almost Tokyo Tower is one of the most popular one. Actually, they are other famous wonders rather than its remarkable skyline.  What are they?

When I was in Tokyo, walking under 33 degree of sunlight and 29 degree of night breeze, I found this city never be silent. This huge city with approximately 35 million people which larger than Malaysian population indeed astonishingly portrays its modernity spreading over all aspects.  For me, I see Tokyo as the center of the cultures harmonizes with modern civilization elements without disregarding their good morals especially respect values towards elders. Tokyo is actually popular worldwide not just due to having fascinating places like Tokyo Tower, Shibuya District, Harajuku streets, Asakusa Temple, Ginza Castle or Tokyo Sky Tree (recently developing) but it is developed with civilized and responsible people make it comfortable to live in. That is why, you would hardly find out traffic jams, illegal racing, pickpockets,  scams, or litter. However, the negative might be molestation as a big issue that usually reported during transportation.

Here, some of pictures of memory in Tokyo:

 Akihabara- the popular place for shopping games, electronic devices and anime merchandise.



 Shibuya District- The most crowded traffic junction in the world... really?!

 Shibuya Station locates the Hachiko memorial statue. I just knew it was famous in Hollywood and Japanese movie based on true story. The dog  is popular as the most loyal dog in the world. It died in 1935 after 9 years waiting it's master who died in 1925 at this railway station.


 Harajuku - The place where you can find out the anime cosplays and Japanese displays.



Tokyo Disney Sea 






 Dinosaurs exhibition at Tokyo National Science Museum






2011年9月16日金曜日

Mountain washed away by March 11 tsunami

 Surah Al Qaria (The Disaster):
Verse 4-5: The Day when men shall be like scattered moths and the mountains like carded wool of different colors.

This verse might be related to this current news in Japan:


(Sep. 16, 2011)
SENDAI - Mt. Hiyori, regarded as the nation's second-lowest mountain at 6.05 meters high, was washed away by the March 11 tsunami, it has been learned.

The tsunami washed away not only the shortest official mountain in Miyagino Ward, Sendai, but also a reed field in the Gamo wetlands where wild birds such as snipes and plovers rested. Consequently, numbers of wild birds in the area have fallen sharply since the disaster.

According to a civic group working to protect the Gamo wetlands, about 50 species of bird are usually observed at this time of year. However, only 28 species were recorded in a survey on the area they took on Sunday.

According to the Sendai municipal government and other sources, Mt. Hiyori was the second-lowest mountain in the nation, behind the 4.53-meter-high Mt. Tempo in Osaka, based on a map issued by the Geospatial Information Authority.

A Geospatial Information Authority official said the body would decide what course of action to take regarding the mountain being featured on its map after checking aerial photos and information from local governments.

The mountain, which was quite easy to walk around, was believed to have been made by local residents around 1909. It overlooked Sendai Bay and was loved by local residents as a place to relax. Some residents have expressed disappointment for having lost the mountain.

An 81-year-old man from Miyagino Ward who used to live near Mt. Hiyori said: "I've not come here for a long time and I'm so surprised to see [the mountain] is totally gone. I regret the loss of the mountain, which made for the best playground when I was a child."

( The Yomiuri Shimbun)