Daily Archives: August 21, 2008

大阪 海遊館 / 天保山 / ハーバービレッジ Osaka Kaiyuukan Aquarium is World Class ! Go Today With Your Smith’s School Students!

For those of you who haven’t been to the Osaka Aquarium, locally known as the Kaiyuukan ( 大阪 海遊館 )you are definitely missing out. Not only is this building an architectural masterpiece in its own right, but also a world-class aquarium facility housing dozens of North Pacific marine ecosystems. The star attraction is a main [...]

A Safe Country Indeed!

Don’t you just love Japan ?    Where else in the world are people so honest and trustworthy ?   I recently moved from my weekly rental in Futakotamagawa to another rental in Kozukue.   My first apartment locked with a key but the new place uses a numerical passcode entry system.  Although they gave [...]