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 2012-09-01 to 1 month

Taipei Metro Xinzhuang Line(台北捷運新荘線) was extended to Guting(古亭) from Zhongxiao Xinsheng(忠孝新生)

This opening made train routes changed dramatically.Before the opening: Danshui Line←→Sindian Line or Zhonghe Line (Luzhou Line←→)Xinzhuang Line After the opening: Danshui Line←→Sindian Line (Luzhou Line←→)Xinzhuang Line←→Zhonghe Line In t…

Blue express 'Shimakaze' will run on Kintetsu Line from the next March

Kintetsu announced that new express for tourists that would be introduced to Osaka-Namba〜Kashikojima and Kintetsu-Nagoya〜Kashikojima was named 'Shimakaze' ,and that the train would begin operation on March 21th in 2013. Various rooms suc…

Chinese crew rescued as boat burns in Japan

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/chinese-crew-rescued-boat-burns-japan-20120928 It shows that Japan deals with diplomatic things as businesslike things, while China began to make it more strictly to inspect im…

Facebook Brazil to pay woman $1,839 over fake profile

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/technology/story/facebook-brazil-pay-woman-1839-over-fake-profile-20120927 We have to be afraid of third parties' post. I didn't imagine that another man can post individual information o…

AirAsia X to create child-free quiet zone starting 2013

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/airasia-x-create-child-free-quiet-zone-starting-2013-20120926 Without any partition between the quiet zone and the conventional zone, it would be meaningless to create the z…

Bangkok airport seeks to solve bird-strike threat

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/bangkok-airport-seeks-solve-bird-strike-threat-20120925 There are two major airports around Bangkok: Suvarabhumi Airport and Don Mueang Airport. While Suvarabhumi Airport is…

Small eater is a kind of fashion?

A researcher in my laboratory was on a date with his girlfriend. He ate small lunch at a stylish restaurant. Though she was satisfied with the lunch, he couldn't make his stomach full. So, he suggested that they go to another restaurant ma…

Getting lost - and found - at the world's top beer fest

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/lifestyle/story/getting-lost-and-found-the-worlds-top-beer-fest-20120923 This festival is also held in Osaka, Japan. Those who can't afford to go to the festival in Germany participate in…

I was drunkun for the first time in my life

I had a drinking session near Kintetsu Nara Station. Then, I drank a lot, and it made my eyesight dazzle. I felt what 'drunkun' is like. As is often the case with me in front of the group lacks female*1, I said a lot of impolite things. Es…

The train for 'China Town'?

In San Francisco, I found a strange rollsign of a MUNI train in Balboa Park, San Francisco. The rollsign displayed 'China Town', despite the fact that no station called 'China Town' is on MUNI Line and that no MUNI Line passes through Chin…

2 women in Malaysia raped and robbed after going for "job interview"

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia-news-network/story/2-women-malaysia-raped-and-robbed-after-going-job-interview-20 In Japan, because job hunting has become more and more difiicult for college students, companies wan…

Travel diary to United States and S.Korea was completed

Please click the following URL, if you want to see the diary. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/special-rapid223/20080301#USKR

A female advised me to change

I can't say who she is. I: I'm a male virgin She: Ah? What have you done? until now! I: I don't know how to play with・・・ She: Uh, is there a club in your university? or didn't have a chance to communicate with females by invitation from…

Japan firms stop China operations after protests

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/japan-firms-stop-china-operations-after-protests-20120917 In developing countries, essential conditions needed for attracting foreign companies' plants are ・Lower average wage…

Fast food all around the world

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/lifestyle/story/fast-food-all-around-the-world-20120916 McDonald's restaurants in United States serve extreme quantity of drink. When we order a cup of drink which is the smallest size in…

AKB48 fan is considered to be a nerd?

A colleague in my part-time job said that he went to work at a power plant as an intern in Chubu region, Japan. There, he became in good terms with a worker. But, the worker said to him "You look like such a nerd as to devote yourself to A…

I went to Koyasan

To participate in a meeting with foreigners. Yesterday, Ireached Hashimoto. DSC_0424 posted by (C)gozami The rapid express is the train I'm going to board I took the train. DSC_0428 posted by (C)gozami Kii-Hosokawa It seems that Nankai int…

My junior researcher was drunkun on alcohol

He vomitted many times. My friend helped him recover from his drunken body. Because I've never been drunken on alcohol, I wonder why some people are drunken on alcohol.

Teaching fast becoming a choice profession in Malaysia

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia-news-network/story/teaching-fast-becoming-choice-profession-malaysia-20120912 Since most Malaysian citizens are supposed to speak 3 languages(English, Malay, and respective ethnic la…

Hong Kong students boycott class to protest China "propaganda"

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/hong-kong-students-boycott-class-protest-china-propaganda-20120911 I don't know "the patriotic Chinese curriculum" is going to be introduced to which schools. The picture on th…

Philippines hopeful of discovering onshore oil

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/philippines-hopeful-discovering-onshore-oil-20120910 About a month ago, it was reported frequently that Spratly Islands are invaded by China(People's Republic of China). The…

It will take a long time before completion of the travel diary of San Francisco and S.Korea

Enormous amount of sentences to complete the diary are still left. And, I haven't yet uploaded all the pictures to post here. For the time being, the date of completion is expected to be later than the end of September. Sorry for being lat…

Testing underway on Bangkok suburban line

Citation: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban-rail/single-view/view/testing-underway-on-bangkok-suburban-line.html I don't remember whether I've said that State Railway of Thailand should electrify North Main Line between Hua Lamphong…

Cabin crew strike grounds 900 more Lufthansa flights

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/money/story/cabin-crew-strike-grounds-900-more-lufthansa-flights-20120907 Recently, I've never seen strike in Japan. It is because more and more freshmen are unlikely to take part in labo…

Adults, teenagers addicted to glue-sniffing in Nicaragua

※VIEWER WARNING!(Grotesque pictures are included in the linked page) Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/adults-teenagers-addicted-glue-sniffing-nicaragua-20120906 When I was in the United States, I saw a couple…

India's 'Hitler' clothing store to change name

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/indias-hitler-clothing-store-change-name-20120904 The word 'Hitler' seems to be a forbidden phrase all over the world. When I was a high school student, a principal of my high …

Travel diary on Sep 4th

IMGP4153 posted by (C)gozami Construction of the new tram system could be seen After waking up, I walked to a bus stop near the hotel. I found that free shuttle for Incheon International Airport runs frequently. I should have ridden the bu…

Travel diary on Sep 3rd

I slept on the plane and completely woke up above the sky of Japan. A television in front of me showed the airplane flied over Pohang and crossed over Korean Peninsula. The plane landed on Incheon. When I stood in a line in front of immigr…

Travel diary on Sep 2nd

I packed my baggage to leave the hotel ,and said goodbye to a roommate and the girl with whom I went on a trip yesterday. The airporter bus came to the hotel and picked me up to SFO. After reaching SFO and checking -in, I found that United…

Travel diary on Sep 1st, 2012

I went to the place in front of a facility near Powell station with a man and a woman, both of them are Japanese. There, we met three girls. Two out of them are girls I met yesterday. We took F line to go to Fisherman's wharf, from which I…