Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

About world's rail news, general news, my train pictures, and travel diary)

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Entries from 2011-01-01 to 1 month

Extreme heavy snow hit Fukui Prefecture(福井県)

According to whether news, Fukui city(福井市) was covered with 117 centimeters of snow, which is about three times as much snow as average record. Such heavy snow paralized the traffic. Yesterday's midnight, snow prevented some large vehic…

シンガポールSMRTのC151A型がシンガポールのビシャン車両基地に到着

兵庫県の川崎重工業及び青島の南車四方(中国南車集団の子会社)の共同出資によるシンガポールSMRTの車両(C151型)22両が1月11日にシンガポール(ビシャン車両基地)に到着したようです。 記事(英語)は以下参照 http://www.flickr.com/photos/motsg/sets/…

My friend keeps diary?

When I moved from Osaka Prefecture University to the office I belong to, I talked with my friend about how much he spent money riding on Midosuji Line last month. He picked up his pocket diary and opened it to remember when and where he we…

Excluding a lady living in Ikoma?

At my part-time job, my boss said that she have to send a picture of us to the headquarter. The picture is to be used to introduce our company to clients. Actually, she took a picture of us excluding the lady living in Ikoma. The reason is…

Nankai, Hanshin, Hankyu, Sanyo, each electric railway company decided to abolish smoking areas.

In Japan, few railway companies prohibit smoking on platforms. Most companies set up smoking areas on the edge of platforms. But, because more and more people knew how smoking do harm on our health, railway companies began to change the ru…

Something strange

It seems strange that two friends sent me e-mail messages informing us of changing addresses simultaneously. The main reasons why we change our e-mail addresses are… ・E-mail addresses assigned by cellphone companies are too complicated to…

My senior researcher boasts his previous body

My senior researcher is told that he is fat. Then, he said that he was a slender boy in his high school days. He showed us the evidence, which are the pictures of his body taken in his high school days. Surprisingly, the pictures were uplo…

Students belong to Seifu (junior) high school or Uenomiya (junior) high school occupied some seats in McDonald's

Today, when I dropped in at McDonald's in front of Osaka-Uehonmachi station to eat a Texas burger*1, I could hardly find my seat to sit down. It was mainly because some seats were occupied by many students who were studying in McDonald's f…

At Shin-Yamaguchi station, platform 0 will be reconstructed as the SL square

Translated and quoted from the article shown below. And a picture related to the article is also shown here. http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/News/Tn201101230059.html Platform 0 at Shin-Yamaguchi station was abandoned due to the renewal of diag…

A colleague(living in Kizugawa) was surprised at the result

He examined how many friends have ever made love with female. The result was that most of his friends(in his high school days) have ever done so. He commented "It's surprising. I don't have courage going to love hotel*1." I and he think th…

2011年3月以降の貧困無縁社会突入が決定

本日、アルバイト先の3月以降のシフトが0になる事が決定したため、アルバイト先の知り合いに会う事が不可能になります。 また、所属研究室も6人を除いて全員卒業。 4月以降に受けるであろう大学の授業に出る同回生がほぼ0人に。 というわけで、3月以降は 月…

Lately, Japanese media concerns about the decreasing number of the students studying in the United States

The reason why they concern about the issue is that weaker connection with the country having the highest technology of the world(=United States) may cause the situation that Japan is left out from the world. But, when we take it into cons…

A female professor criticized "Soushoku-kei danshi"

※Notice that "Soushoku-kei Danshi" is the slang indicates fragile male. I saw a fiction drama yesterday casually. In the drama, a female professor insisted that it seems strange to her that "Soushoku-kei Danshi" has been favored lately des…

Nankai Electric Railway released the news that 12000series train would appear around this autumn

Planned design of the train is drawn here. http://www.nankai.co.jp/company/news/pdf/110117.pdf Type: 12000series Sets: 4cars×2sets Line: Nankai Main Line and Wakayamako Line Rapidity: Limited Express ※It will be operated as the Limited Exp…

A friend living in Kawanishi was allowed to take doctral course

He was allowed to take doctral course by his mother on condition that he pay for school expenses by himself. When I estimate the balance from my earning, it'll be hard for him to earn enough money to pay for it. In addition to it, it is co…

デリー地下鉄で新たな動き

2011年1月14日、バイオレット線がSarita ViharからBadarpurまで延伸されました。また、インディラ・ガンディー国際空港への空港連絡鉄道となるオレンジ線も今月開通するはずですが、既に3回も開通が延期されているので今月中に開業できるかどうか微妙みたい…

I finishied writing Seoul travel diary

See below.(Japanese) http://d.hatena.ne.jp/special-rapid223/20110109/#Seoul2011.1 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/special-rapid223/20110110

ソウル旅行記が完成

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/special-rapid223/20110109/#Seoul2011.1 からご覧下さい。

I talked with my senior researcher about Air India

She has a profound knowledge of airline careers. It is because she often go abroad such as EU, Thai, Laos and Australia. When I was having lunch with her*1, she began to talk about India. Although she wants to travel to India, she doesn't …

A friend living in Takatsuki saw me?

He told me that he saw me in Umeda.(precisely speaking, he saw me in Whity Umeda*1) Because he was walking around Umeda with his friend who is not familiar with me, he couldn't speak to me in order not to make him wait for nothing during…

The donation from "Date Naoto" has spread all over Japan

According to broadcast, someone donates a lot of things to city halls or orphanages etc. The one leaves the messages with the name "Date Naoto". Originally, "Date Naoto" has already been famous as the character on the cartoon "Tigar Mask",…

Yesterday, I returned from Korea and my senior researcher went to Italy.

It has been said that less Japanese youngsters would like to go abroad in proportion to the increase of "Soushoku-kei danshi", which is the nickname of fragile men. But, in my laboratory, this tendency may not be applied to researchers. ・…

2011年1月10日の旅行記

昨日は部屋に入ってそのまま寝てしまいましたが、部屋の外に居た日本人の声で起きました。時計を見ると0:35。こんな時間まで夜遊びしていたみたいです。海外来てそんな遅くまで外歩いて大丈夫なんw まぁ、僕も香港で23:30まで外歩いてたけど。 7:00ぐらいに…

乗車記録はこちら

2011年1月9日の旅行記

近鉄、御堂筋線、阪和線、関西空港線で関空へ。 済州航空のカウンターに行って、チェックイン。2つ前で並んでいた韓国人の方はドンキホーテで買った大量のうまい棒を持っていました。 さて、チェックイン後、チケット屋で両替し足らなかったウォンを両替し、…

ソウル周辺の乗り鉄旅行 乗車記録はこちら

Perhaps, I won't be able to keep tomorrow's diary

Because I'll go to the place where I don't know whether I can get a cellphone signal, I can't eliminate the possibility that I won't write here anything tomorrow. But, I'll write the travel diary on tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in t…

台湾鉄路管理局沙崙線が2011年1月2日に開業

台南市の市街地とは離れていた台湾高速鉄道の高鐵台南駅ですが、在来線の縦貫線と高鐵台南駅とを結ぶ沙崙線が開通したために市街地と新幹線とが結ばれました。 台南駅の2駅隣の中洲駅(将来的には中間駅の開業で5駅隣になる予定)から分岐し、沙崙駅(高鐵台…

It is discouraging for me that winter vacation ends today

I have to go to university after the interval of 9 days. I spent all of the 9 days being engaged in part-time job or travel. I've never had the experience of spending such a busy winter vacation. But, I'm not concerned about it. The proble…

Few friends belonging my university sent me New Year's cards

※following data was totaled on February 4th. Only 2 friends belonging my university sent me New Year's cards. Additional 2 friends sent me e-mail congratulating new year. On the other hand, 6 friends having belonged my high school sent me …