Generally every year, for four days in the spring and again four days in the fall, Kyoto Gosho is open to the public. Needless to say it is very popular with older people and with tourists who happen to be lucky enough to hit the timing just right. I wasn’t able to organize a student outing to […]
Autumn Colors
When the differential between average daytime highs and average nighttime lows are 10 degrees Celsius or more, hormones within the various deciduous species of maple, poplar, camphor, birch and others duly begin the process of changing color and dropping the spent foliage for the year. Some areas in Nara have already begun and probably a good two […]
A Smith’s pub in Mito(弥刀), Higashi Osaka?
Hi! This is Sven from the Smith’s school of English Fuse, Higashi Osaka. Last week, I went to Mito station(弥刀駅) on the Kintetsu Osaka line (近鉄大阪線) to promote our English conversation school (英会話学校) in Fuse. Mito station(弥刀駅) is a local station in a peaceful residential area. I always think that it is a nice area […]