Congratulation! The first anniversary of the BLOG. (SHUKU! ISSHUUNENN )

It was in October(JYU-GATSU) last year that I started this blog.

Just one year passed at this time.

「I want a lot of foreign people to visit my page to let them know the average life(HEIKIN NA SEIKATSU) in Japan.」

That was my dream. And the dream came true soon.

Now, the number of visitor amounts to 700 all over the world.

Sometimes it amounts 1000.

The visitor are from France, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Italy, England, USA, Germany, China, Finland, Singapore, India, Hungary...and more.

I can't say because a lot of people visit from all over the world.

Special thanks to everyone!! 

By the way, Hamamatsu is the really average city in Japan.

It is the perfect stage(PITTARI NO BUTAI) for the blog.

Though the culture of Tokyo tends to be sent to the world as for Japan, sometimes I and people living in Hamamatsu might feel that the event in Tokyo like other country.

Hamamatsu have flourishing agriculture also the industries, and not a big city(TOKAI) but also too countryside(INAKA).

I can go to Tokyo or Osaka by bullet train (SHINKANSEN) in an hour and a half; it takes 30 minutes to go to the sea or the mountain by car.

I would like to introduce such Hamamatsu city.

The city has a population(JINKOU) of 82,000.

The gross area(SOUMENSEKI) in the city is about 1500 square kilometers.

(It is the second area in Japan.) 

Hamamatsu prospered as a transportation node in the Edo period because of it located

at the center of Tokaido connected Edo and Kyoto.

Also it is located at the center even if it sees in the entire Japan, in Hamamatsu industry has been full of energy.

I introduced the Hamamatsu castle Ieyasu Tokugawa lived, and the place related him, didn't I?

Actually, there are many famous people(YU-MEIJIN) in Hamamatsu.

Yamaha Torakusu・・・Founder of YAMAHA.

Hamamatsu is the town of musical instruments because of the piano production is top of Japan.  

Koichi Kawai・・・Founder of KAWAI musical instruments.

Sakichi Toyota・・・Founder of TOYOTA

He was born in Hamamatsu. He was an inventor.

TOYOTA based on the automatic weaving that he developed. 

Souichirou Honda・・・Founder of HONDA.

He became the president of HONDA from the garage mechanic in a single lifetime.

Michio Suzuki・・・Founder of SUZUKI.

Only SUZUKI has the headquarters in Hamamatsu now.

Kenjirou Takayanagi・・・Father of the TV.

He is a scientist (KAGAKUSYA)who succeeds for the first time in the world in experimenting on electronic television.

Do you think it is a little amazing??

Though today there is no pioneer spirit that they were actively at that time, I think we have inherited it from them.

There are industry museum and historical museum as a memorial to them.

So, Hamamatsu may be fun for people like such museum.

I will continue introducing interesting places in Hamamatsu with my ordinary life after another.

Please watch over me fondly.

Today's sunset.(YU-YAKE)

Vast sky is also charm of Hamamatsu.    

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