My wife and I graduated from TEC English Conversation school last month. Actually, we started to learn an English in 2005. However, my teacher is leaving from Japan this month. He is an American and go back to his hometown. Thanks to his t…

I think New York city is a baseball town, because there are two Major League teams and some minor league teams in the city. So, we planned to watch a minor league baseball game around noon and a Major League baseball game at the night. Tha…

After Toronto, we headed to Newark, New Jersey on Air Canada. That flight was nice, because it was in the same zone, but there was a one hour delay. Around 3PM, we checked in to our hotel in New York, near Penn station. In the evening, we …

We traveled to Canada and the USA for sightseeing during our summer vacation. We watched four baseball games at four different ballparks in five days! We left Japan on the 9th of August at night from Kansai airport and changed airplanes in…

We went to Motosu town in Gifu prefecture by car. I drove there in just two hours and it was a one day trip. We had lunch in Ayu fish restaurant riverside. The Ayu fish lives in small clear rocky bottomed rivers and streams. In Japan it is…

Summer is coming to Japan. It's supper hot and humided, so real Japanese summer!

My wife and I have a plan to visit Canada and the US this summer vacation. It’s our first time to go there in four years. We’re planning to watch a Major League Baseball game, the Toronto Blue Jays versus the Chicago Cubs in Toronto and I …

We bought a folding bike, made in the USA two weeks ago and tried it last weekend. In the morning, we headed to Kusatsu railway station by bike and got on the JR train with the bike. We changed train at Kibukawa and then arrived at Minakuc…

Japan winning the World Baseball Classic this year will always be a happy memory for me! Last weekend, we watched a documentary movie about the championship. We could learn about the players backgrounds, their inside stories, struggles and…

Nagoya is east of Oasaka, Kansai and it’s just 50 minutes by bullet train. After we finished work, we headed to Nagoya to watch an interleague baseball game, the Chunichi Dragons versus the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters at Nagoya dome stadi…

We visited Hokkaido to watch a baseball game, the Nippon-Ham Fighters versus the Hanshin Tigers at the new ballpark, ESCON field. We arrived there three hours before the game and enjoyed some food, local beers and the local lemon sour. The…

We're flying to Sapporo from KIX.

We took a ski trip to Yamagata prefecture last weekend. I know it’s already May, however you can still enjoy skiing on natural snow in Yamagata. So, we went to Gassan ski resort, located west of Yamagata city. This ski resort is very uniqu…

I had a long vacation during Golden Week, which is the Japanese holiday from end of April to early May. So, I went to Hokkaido mainly for skiing. I went to Niseko, Kiroro, Sapporo Kokusai, Furano, Kurodake and Asahidake ski resorts and enj…

We went to Asahidake today and it was wonderful weather. We enjoyed a trekking on snow and skiing there. My wife and her mother seemed to enjoy.

We're flying to Chitose in Hokkaido.

It's snowing at Sapporo Kokusai ski resort.

I’m at Kiroro ski resort in Akaigawa village, Hokkaido.

I'm going to Tomakomai in Hokkaido by ShinNihonkai Ferry boat from Tsuruga in Fukui prefecture.

We come to Osaka dome stadium to watch a baseball game today.

My wife and I went to Hokkaido last weekend. We didn’t ski, but we enjoyed watching baseball and trying the local food this time. We flew to Chitose in Hokkaido last Friday night and the cabin was fully booked. I thought many people go to …

Kiyomiya walks off for the Fighters in the 10th

We're flying to Chitose, Sapporo tonight.

Baseball is back today. I'm excited!

I took a week off last week, so I stayed in Hokkaido almost one week. Unfortunately, my wife couldn’t take any week days off, so she could only stay there for just the weekend. First, I drove to Nagoya and boarded the ferry to Tomakomai ci…

Amazing day! Go Japan Baseball!

It's hot in Hokkaido. You don't need a jackets there. The real spring has come.

I'm bording the ferry boat to Tomakomai from Sendai. I will enjoy 15 hours ride!

We are staying at Yamagata prefecture now and it's still snowing today. We enjoyed powedry snow in Yonezawa ski resort and amazing hot springs at Onogawa Onsen. What a day!

12 years have passed since the great eastern Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011 and I feel time flies very quickly. Recovering from such a terrible disaster takes time, however I feel the people of the Tohoku region have made great progres…