2025.11.20

It was fine.

I stayed at home and worked.

The repair person finally came and fixed the problem. This is the third time to ask the repair therefore they discounted the total fee than last time.

I received the delivery goods.

Today is the new moon and it is a good time to think of goals you want to accomplish.

I received an important document from Fushinan which is a headquarter of Tea Ceremony School.They offered the license of teaching the way of tea. I will think about it.

2025.11.19

It was cloudy and cold. It was the coldest day in this winter.

There were many paperworks at Office.

At night I cleaned a part of kitchen. It took longer than expected.

So there were other things I was going to do but did not.

To my glad my 183rd ebook became No.1 in Japan.

2025.11.13

It was a rainy day.

I stayed and worked at home. I checked the bilingal documents and sent pictures to the volunteer staffs of Japan Education Fair in Uzbekistan.

I planned my trip to Izumo and Hiroshima at the end of this month and the early next month.

Since it is the festival season there, it is very hard to find the accommodations.

I started preparation for the 183rd ebook. 

I booked the beauty salon.

2025.11.16

It was fine.

I stayed at home all day long, did laundry and cleaned.

I made the 183rd ebook about my trip to Kansai in September. At that time I traveled Shiga, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka for 3 days

At night there was a monthy meeting.

I made plans to visit Oki and made some reservations.

2025.11.18

It was fine but slightly rained, and cold.

We had a meeting of the Study Abroad Fair.

I will have a chance to talk about Uzbekistan next month.

There was a zoom gathering at night.

From today present campaign of the 183re ebook started.

I booked the hotels in Hiroshima.

2825.11.17

It was fine.

It is a day of tiger when happens every 12 day and is a good day to pay because it would be returned.

So, I booked a rent-a-car and long distance buses.

After coming home at night I had a zoom session. 

To my glad my 183rd e-book is ranked in Japan already.

2025.11.15

It was fine.

November 15 is known as Shichigosan (七五三), which means seven five three. Those family which has children whose age are seven five three goes to the shrines to wish their happy healthy growth..

As a ritual of the 15th day of the month I visited two shrines, but I did not see any Shichigosan family today.

I walked to the station via nearby shrine and headed for Ningyocho to attend a seminar.

It was very interesting.

After that we went to have dinner at Aomori izakaya.

I came home at midnight.

2025.11.14

It was fine.

I submitted the report document of business trip to the accounting section.

At night I watched two movies on TV.

I have been planning the trip to Izumo and Hiroshima. I hope to visit Oki this time. There are 4 islands. I need to collect information.

I was asked how to go to the shrine I went to on May 3, 2022. Unfortunately I did not publish the ebook about it yet nor there was no blog on that day. I do not know why.

2025.11.10

It was fine.

It is taian (大安) today so that I enshrined the two new talisman I received yesterday.

There were lots of paperworks to do at office.

From today present campaign of No.182 ebook started.

I started planning the next trip.

2025.11.9

It was a rainy day.

I still feel tired and was wondering if I should go or not.

After all I walked to the station, took trains, and attended the once a month seminar.   

After that I went to visit Iseyama kotai jingu and Naritasan Yokohama branch.

I went to see my friend to receive two talisman of goddesses in Mie.

I came home by taxi which cost yen1000 though it was yen 700 the other day.

I should have used my car because the parking fee was also yen1000.

At night there was a webinar.

2025.11.12

It was fine but cold.

There were lots of things to do at office.

On my way home I went grocery shopping at two places.

To my glad my 182nd book is No.1 in Japan and Germany after USA.

   

I have been planning to go to Shimane and Hiroshima from the end of this month. It is very hard to find accommodations during that time. I hope I can find the reasonable ones.

2025.11.11

It was fine but cold.

It seems I've got a cold.

 

On my way home I went to a gas station to fill up the car. Every Tuesday they have a campaign. I got a box of Pretz of mentaiko taste because November 11 is the Day of Pretz.

To my glad my 182nd e−book has been No.1 in the USA.This may be the first time that the ebook became No.1 in the USA before it became No.1 in Japan.

I've got a call about the new event.

2025.10.28

It was fine.

In the morning I cleaned and arranged the inhouse shrine.

I ordered the rental Wifi for my trip abroad for the first time.

I took one hour off to make sure to be at home to see the delivery company which would come to pick up my suitcase between 6 PM and 9 PM.

After all they came after 7PM.

But I am glad that I took an hour off to see the beautiful sunset at Tateishi.

I went shopping on my way home.

2025.11.7

It was fine.

Today is ritto (立冬), one of 24 sekki (二十四節気), 24 solar terms. 　

Last one was soko (霜降) on October 23 and the next one is shosetsu (小雪) on November 22.

I went to the office after a week.

I saw the fireworks and a big moon on my way home.

I received the suitcase tonight.

I cooked cherry blossom rice which was beautiful color and delicious.

2025.11.6

It was fine.

I arrived at Inchon around 8AM. Transit was rather difficult. I stayed at the lounge for a few hours.

I left Inchon at 13:25. I watched a Japanese movie. I saw the beautiful scenery of Mt.Fuji and sunset.

I arrived at Narita around 16:00.

To my surprise I happened to see my friend at the turntable. She was also from Inchon.

After returning Global Wifi and sending a suitcase, I took trains and taxi and came home around 21:00.

It was a nice business trip.

2025.11.3

It was fine but rained at night.

November 3 is a national holiday called Bunka no hi, Culture Day.

There was the biggest and the main event of this trip today.

I had chances to talk with the students who are interested in studying abroad.

At night there was a dinner party and I enjoyed eating and talking.

I was surprised to know that my friend from Expo 2005 is also in Tashkent now.

2025.6.22

It was cloudy and fine.

After breakfast I changed to Kimono and headed for Kyoto station to attend Mr. Fujimoto's tour to Hieizan.

There were 88 people, and I saw some people after a long time.

I have been there before, but we visited the places we have not visited before.

After coming back 8 of us went to have dinner.

At night I attended the zoom event.

2025.11.8

It was fine.

I got up around noon. I noticed how tired I was.

There was a reunion of university. But I did not attend and stayed at home all day long.

There was something wrong with the IH  cooking heater. I ordered the repair but it would be on November 20. I have to deal without it for two weeks. What shall we eat for two weeks? It happened two years ago. So I think I can.

I made a reservation for the luncheon on November 22.

I tried to make the 182nd ebook.

2025.11.5

It was find but cold.

 

After breakfast I went to the nearby market and exchanged $20. I bought something at the supermarket. 

After checking out the hotel I headed for Prov Center for lunch. 

I walked along the river and visited the Japanese Garden.

I went to Amir Timor Square and went back to the hotel to get something.

I went to Chorsu Bazaar for shopping.

I came back to the hotel around 7 PM and headed for the airport. There were so many people and I could not take the window side.

We left Tashkent at 22:30.

2025.11.4

It was a cold rainy day.

After having breakfast we left the hotel around 8 AM, visited 3 universitiies, had lunch, visited another university, and came back to the hotel around 5 PM.

 

I said good bye to other participants who went to the next destination at 6 PM.

My friend came to see me at the hotel around 7 PM and we went to have dinner.To my surprise she was from the same university as one of the participants of this Japan Education Fair.

What is more she had the same shoulder back of different color I had. What a coincidence!

I went to see her off at a subway station and came back to the hotel around 9 PM.

2025.11.2

It was fine.

 

I woke up early.  

After breakfast I checked out the hotel and we started the sightseeing tour at 10 AM.

We visited Guri Amir, Shah−i−Zinda, Siyab Bazaar, Bibi−Xomim Masjidi, and Maydoni 

Registon.

They were very beautiful.

We had a square lunch before the Registon.

We took a train at 16:57 and arrived at Tashkent at 19:17 and came back to the hotel around 20:00.

We had dinner at a hotel restaurant.

It was a nice day.

2025.11.1

A new month has started.

November is Juichigatsu (11月 or 十一月) or Shimotsuki (霜月), frost month.

There are only two month left.

I got up early and had a quick breakfast and left the hotel at 7 AM to get on a train bound for Samarquand at 8 AM.

Train station is big and beautiful. There were snack and coffee service.

We arrived at 10:25 and headed for the hotel to have orientation and lunch which was volumy.

After that we headed for the venue to attend Japan Education Fair. It was successful.

After coming back to the hotel 11 of us went to have dinner. It was very nice and rather cheap.

After coming back to the hotel two of us went to see the night view of the Registan which was very beautiful.

It was a nice day.

2025.10.31

It was fine.

After having breakfast I checked out the hotel, took a shuttle bus at 8:20 and arrived at the airport around 8:40.

I picked up the Global Wifi and my suitcase.

There was a long line for checking in. I used the lounge for a short time.

Our flight delayed about half an hour.

There were drink and snack, lunch, light meal services.

I watched some movies in foreign languages.

We arrived at Tashkent after 9 hours flight.

We came to the hotel by bus and checked in.

Four of us went to have dinner at the nearby restaurant.

It was a long day.