Thank you very much for your accessing this blog!
I'd like to annouce that I have stopped my blog updating activities untile the end of June 2010, because of my physical move from Tokyo to Hyogo Pref.
I will start again from July 2010!
See you in July 2010!
May 5, 2010
Mar 23, 2010
"Flower and Green Fair" 20th Mar. to 30th May.
This is not a MinamiAwaji event, but very big and popular one in Awaji Island.
"Flower and Green Fair 2010" has been held at Awaji Yume Butai located in the northern part of Awaji Island.
The event webiste is here → http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/index.htm
The theme is "A New Colaboration of human beings and nature."
I cannot believe that there are no English or Chinese instruction on the web even thought such a big event...
Anyway, through the period of the event, there are many kinds of exhibitions, music concerts, contests and symposium.
For example, in the next weekend (27th and 28th Mar.), a cycling festival is going to be planed on Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
The event calendar is here → http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/eventtop_weekly.htm
Please visite and enjoy it!
"Flower and Green Fair 2010" has been held at Awaji Yume Butai located in the northern part of Awaji Island.
The event webiste is here → http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/index.htm
The theme is "A New Colaboration of human beings and nature."
I cannot believe that there are no English or Chinese instruction on the web even thought such a big event...
Anyway, through the period of the event, there are many kinds of exhibitions, music concerts, contests and symposium.
For example, in the next weekend (27th and 28th Mar.), a cycling festival is going to be planed on Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
The event calendar is here → http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/eventtop_weekly.htm
Please visite and enjoy it!
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event
Feb 22, 2010
Awaji Island Roll Playing Game "Onion Quest" will start from 28, Teb.
From 28 Feb. 2010 to 31 Mar. 2010, the Awaji Island roll playing game "Onion Quest" will be excuted.
According to the official website of "Onion Quest,"
step1: entry to the mobile website of "Onion Quest" by QR code scanner with your mobile phone,
step2: play a game by following instructions on the mobile web, sometimes with clearing real missions,
step3: and finally, you might win some prizes by ending whole missions.
The game is constructed based on the fictious story that Awaji Island has faces crisis of invasion by some dark sides, and you are the person to save Awaji Island from that crisis.
There are animated characters prepared.
Hyogo Pref, Honshu-Shikoku Highway agency, Hyogo Tourism Agency and some other organizations have sponsered this project as one of the Awaji Island tourism activities.
Unfortunately, at this time, there are provided only in Japanese, so I try to ask any other language availability.
According to the official website of "Onion Quest,"
step1: entry to the mobile website of "Onion Quest" by QR code scanner with your mobile phone,
step2: play a game by following instructions on the mobile web, sometimes with clearing real missions,
step3: and finally, you might win some prizes by ending whole missions.
The game is constructed based on the fictious story that Awaji Island has faces crisis of invasion by some dark sides, and you are the person to save Awaji Island from that crisis.
There are animated characters prepared.
Hyogo Pref, Honshu-Shikoku Highway agency, Hyogo Tourism Agency and some other organizations have sponsered this project as one of the Awaji Island tourism activities.
Unfortunately, at this time, there are provided only in Japanese, so I try to ask any other language availability.
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event
Jan 27, 2010
"Whole Awaji-Island Museum"
Hyogo Pref.Gov. has been excuting the project "Whole Awaji-Island Museum" since 2009.
The website url is http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/aw01/aw01_1_000000061.html (but only in Japanese).
In this project, the gov. has invited "treasure of Awaji-Island for you" from citizens, and those treasures have been opend on the web.
There are various kinds of treasures; monument, specific person, temple, shirine, Jizo...
Recently in Japan, the sightseeing trend has been shifted from group tour to very personal tour. And those local monument, temple or some interesting personality have been looked as local resources for recent tourists.
So that I have been interested in the project of Hyogo Pref. Gov. of "Whole Awaji-Island Museum."
However, ! as there are no maps, no detail address information with each treasure, anybody other than people who live there can reach those location...
And finally, I (as a member of NPO "Minami-Awaji Information Community") has created the google maps version of the whole Awaji-Island Museum on this website.
(now on the way)
Please visite this website, and visite the "treasure" by yourselves!
↓those are some of "treasure"
The website url is http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/aw01/aw01_1_000000061.html (but only in Japanese).
In this project, the gov. has invited "treasure of Awaji-Island for you" from citizens, and those treasures have been opend on the web.
There are various kinds of treasures; monument, specific person, temple, shirine, Jizo...
Recently in Japan, the sightseeing trend has been shifted from group tour to very personal tour. And those local monument, temple or some interesting personality have been looked as local resources for recent tourists.
So that I have been interested in the project of Hyogo Pref. Gov. of "Whole Awaji-Island Museum."
However, ! as there are no maps, no detail address information with each treasure, anybody other than people who live there can reach those location...
And finally, I (as a member of NPO "Minami-Awaji Information Community") has created the google maps version of the whole Awaji-Island Museum on this website.
(now on the way)
Please visite this website, and visite the "treasure" by yourselves!
↓those are some of "treasure"
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service
Jan 17, 2010
15th of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Don't forget Jan. 17th, 1995.
At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, I was a high school student and living in Minamiawaji area. The day was the next day of the national university entrance examination of myself, and I was sleeping deeply because of such early morning.
If the day was come in a day earlier, I was stayed in Sannomiya, Kobe city where had been destroyed by earthquake and fire, I might have been not living now.
There are many event planned around Kobe city and Awaji Island, so please visit and learn that earthquake.
At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, I was a high school student and living in Minamiawaji area. The day was the next day of the national university entrance examination of myself, and I was sleeping deeply because of such early morning.
If the day was come in a day earlier, I was stayed in Sannomiya, Kobe city where had been destroyed by earthquake and fire, I might have been not living now.
There are many event planned around Kobe city and Awaji Island, so please visit and learn that earthquake.
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event
Jan 9, 2010
Awaji-ben vol.2: "Omossyoi."(おもっしょい。)="It's interesting!!"
I have thought I'd like to pick up at least one Awaji-ben in the blog since the last post in 27th Nov., but this is the second time to do it...
This time I try to pick up the Awaji-ben "Omossyoi." (おもっしょい。)
-interpretation: It's interesting.
-in standard Japanese: "O-mo-shi-ro-i."(おもしろい。)
-example conversation:
A: "He is a really omossyoi man!"
You can listen to the real voice conversation click here. (provided by awajiben.net)
In Kansai area, people usually use not "Omossyoi" but "O-mo-ro-i"(おもろい).
There is a blog which a Minamiawaji living man has run the website with the title "Omossyoi Awaji-shima." You can see some videos of Awaji events on this website. Please check it!
This time I try to pick up the Awaji-ben "Omossyoi." (おもっしょい。)
-interpretation: It's interesting.
-in standard Japanese: "O-mo-shi-ro-i."(おもしろい。)
-example conversation:
A: "He is a really omossyoi man!"
You can listen to the real voice conversation click here. (provided by awajiben.net)
In Kansai area, people usually use not "Omossyoi" but "O-mo-ro-i"(おもろい).
There is a blog which a Minamiawaji living man has run the website with the title "Omossyoi Awaji-shima." You can see some videos of Awaji events on this website. Please check it!
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awaji-ben
Jan 3, 2010
Onion Soup
Awaji island, especially Minamiawaji area, is very famous producer of "onion," ranked as No.4 city of those production amount in all over Japan.
There are many kinds of onion related souvenirs like onion pie, onion dressing, onion flavored noodle, onion pickles...but I would recommend "Onion Soup."
Ten cups of onion soup are packed as a souvenir at 480-yen, and each cup of soup is composed with one onion soup powder and one bag of flied onion. You can have a soup just after adding hot water onto those soup powder and flied onion.
"Onion soup" souvenir is the most hot-selling good in the Awaji highway oasis parking area on Honshu-Shikoku Expressway.
When I am going back to Awaji, I always buy 2-3 pack of onion soup.
*you can buy them also through the internet: shopping website
There are many kinds of onion related souvenirs like onion pie, onion dressing, onion flavored noodle, onion pickles...but I would recommend "Onion Soup."
Ten cups of onion soup are packed as a souvenir at 480-yen, and each cup of soup is composed with one onion soup powder and one bag of flied onion. You can have a soup just after adding hot water onto those soup powder and flied onion.
"Onion soup" souvenir is the most hot-selling good in the Awaji highway oasis parking area on Honshu-Shikoku Expressway.
When I am going back to Awaji, I always buy 2-3 pack of onion soup.
*you can buy them also through the internet: shopping website
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food
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