Comments on: Some Old Posts From When We Moved to Japan http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-07/730 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-07/730#comment-14379 Peter Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:23:50 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-07/730#comment-14379 <a href="http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/gyousei/hpcontent/eng/index.html" title="Hirakata City Web Site" rel="nofollow">Hirakata-shi</a> ... makes me feel <i>nazukashii</i> because that's where I first stayed when I arrived in Japan about 25 years before you (room&board in exchange for teaching English -- I soon found a better-paying job). I still remember the September heat and humidity and the amazingly noisy cicadas -- and the smell of the open sewers (not as bad as one might expect, probably due to the Japanese diet). By the way, it's only <a href="http://www.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi" title="Japan train schedules" rel="nofollow">half an hour</a> from Hirakatashi to Sanjo Kyoto by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihan_Main_Line" title="Keihan main line" rel="nofollow">Keihan</a> express. I made that trip many many times. Hirakata-shi … makes me feel nazukashii because that’s where I first stayed when I arrived in Japan about 25 years before you (room&board in exchange for teaching English — I soon found a better-paying job). I still remember the September heat and humidity and the amazingly noisy cicadas — and the smell of the open sewers (not as bad as one might expect, probably due to the Japanese diet).

By the way, it’s only half an hour from Hirakatashi to Sanjo Kyoto by Keihan express. I made that trip many many times.

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