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1. Shooting birds is banned here.
2. The shooting of birds is banned here.

Here's a difference of their objects. When 'the' is put before gerund, the phrase becomes completely a noun and it loses the function as a verb. So we must use 'of' before its object.

However, I doubt whether the next sentence could be correct or not.

3. The taking of pictures is banned here.

I think that it seems to be unnatural.

What do you think?

Posted at Thu Sep 27 14:11:40 UTC 2012
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おはようございます、おはよう
Good morning.

こんにちは、やあ、おっす、はーい、よっ
Good afternoon, Hello, Hi

こんばんは、おばんでございます、こん
Good evening.

ありがとうございます、ありがとう、ありがと、サンキュ、どうも、
Thank you, Thanks, Thanks a lot.

調子はどうですか？
How are you?, How are you doing?

調子どう？、元気？、やあ、
What's up?

If you have some questions, please don't mind asking me.

Posted at Sat Sep 22 13:49:34 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1690574 http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1690574 Nao Sat Sep 22 13:49:34 UTC 2012 However fall is coming.

Today, I practice the following sentences. Please correct them, if I miss.

★look
1. This pizza looks delicious.
2. You look like catching a cold.
3. He looks as if he got a headache.

★sound
1. That sounds great.
2. It sounds exciting, isn't it.
3. This music sounds like a voice of cow.

★taste
1. This cheesecake tastes teriffic.
2. The wine I drank yesterday tasted like a rusty iron.


If there were other expressions, please let me know.^^

Posted at Mon Sep 17 13:50:53 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1682186 http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1682186 Nao Mon Sep 17 13:50:53 UTC 2012 It means the nature which one wishes being same as others and hesitates to express one's opinion strongly.

We Japanese cherish this concept. I think this is because we may be worried for being disliked by others or disgusting someone. Actually I often behave like this, but I don't like this considering. I wish we were more active or aggressive.

What is your nature of nation?

Posted at Wed Sep 12 09:40:58 UTC 2012
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①　look
I look at you.
She looks like a witch.

② see
I saw her last night.
The house was seen from here.

③ watch
I watched the F1 grand prix on TV yesterday.
We watch birds in the forest.

④ gaze
The stranger is gazing at me.
I feel like throwing up because I gazed at the rotating scene on TV.

Posted at Mon Sep 10 13:54:42 UTC 2012
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This is the money which has been used for Iraq War until today.

I've read "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict".
This was written about the cost of Iraq War which America has used since the war began.

I couldn't believe this figures and I knew that there are still a lot of problems in America such as veterans who came back, injustice finance of the war and enormous budgets for the war. This book is little difficult, but it taught me that one war costs many people extraordinary money and it makes them annoy seriously.

I am especially interested in America's PMC(Private Military Company). Anybody can join the company or what kinds of people will become its members?

At last, again, I'd like to ask you a question.

What do you think about Iraq War?

Please tell me your thought existing in your heart.

Posted at Sat Sep 01 13:19:31 UTC 2012
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However, today was a Good Day!! That's why I could talk about many things with my classmates!! I spoke more English than last week.

The theme of the lesson was a certain hiphop music which had been famous among teenagers the other day. It starts the following passage.

"Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We're takin' calls off the wish line"

I forgot asking this music name...
Do you know this song?

Posted at Tue Aug 28 13:22:16 UTC 2012
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Compared with others, I think that I'm still a child but how can we say we become adults?

When can we become grown?

Posted at Sun Aug 26 13:58:32 UTC 2012
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★日本語を勉強している方へ

一つ質問させてください。

私は以前から、英語を勉強している合間に、イラク戦争に関する本を読んでいました。

結局アメリカは、反戦を訴えていた国々を無視して、無理やりイラク戦争を始めたわけですが、
当時、または現在、イラク戦争に対して、どのような気持ちや考えを抱いていましたか？

また、イラク戦争が終わった今、イラク戦争は正しい戦争であったと思いますか？


★日本語でも英語でもどちらでも構いませんので、みなさんの意見を聞かせてください。

Posted at Fri Aug 24 13:31:04 UTC 2012
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I taught twin sisters in my cram school.
I've never met twins, so it was for the first time that I talked with twin!!
Since I had to teach them at the same time(in my cram school I teach two students in one hour), so at first I was confused owing to thier similatiry.

Compared this sisters, it seemed that certainly they have a lot in common, but each of them has some dissimilar points. For example, thier characteristics, their favorite things, thier dreams and their ways of thinking.

I was so intersted in those things, so I enjoyed today's teaching.

Next week I'll try to talk with them more.

Posted at Thu Aug 23 14:05:41 UTC 2012
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Since I was a college student, I've watched F1 on TV.
Last year I also went to 鈴鹿サーキット(Suzuka circuit).

Why have I loved it? That's why my favorite girl had liked F1, so I began to watch it for chatting with her about that^^;

Now that I'm really into it. Sounds, designs, drivers. There are a lot of fascinating things in F1. RedBull is the best of all F1 teams I think.
I love Sebastian Vettel!! I saw him at 鈴鹿 last year, but I couldn't get his autograph.

Well, I'd like to ask you questions.
Do you like F1? Who is the most favorite driver of you?
If you aren't interested in F1, what do you think F1?


Posted at Wed Aug 22 12:39:24 UTC 2012
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I didn't have a feeling speaking English because of something.
It was wasting time and I regretted not trying to speak English.
So it was a bad day...


Next time I'm going to speak English more actively!!

Posted at Tue Aug 21 12:45:25 UTC 2012
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Day 8 May 30th

【The way to my home】
Even though it was the last day of my trip, it had been raining and very cold.
Remembering my travel, I couldn't help feeling sad and wanting to stay here more.

I also embarked the Ferry and went back my home for about 14 hours!!
This was because I didn't use freeway owing to the lack of money...
There aren't nothing to wtite, sorry.


This travel made me consider my life and whether it would be right or not to toil away for my company. I had met many kinds of people and heard many profound taliking. In the conversation, I could know that whoever lives in this world has something hard and inevitable, so we must not escape from those things but confront with them. I think that there are so many ways to live that I can change my job and live with many fun.



Posted at Mon Aug 20 14:04:41 UTC 2012
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Even though after coming back my home I slept at 3:00 am, I got up at 7:00 am in order to do some things I had to do today. It was somewhat hotter than yesterday, but fall seems to be gradually approching.

【BBQ with my friends】

At noon, I and my friends who used to be my classmates in junior high school were going to a river side near our city. Being in Obon or during a summer vacation, there were a plenty of youngmen, children and family. The spot we decided to do BBQ was by the short fall, so we could feel cooler as much as your air conditioner.

Today, we were five and didn't buy much foods because we didn't want to have some leftovers. However despite less quantity, we could enjoy eating meets and drinking alcohol drinks.^^ We ate meat, meat, rice ball, meat and meat!!w(There were almost meats 'only' !!) This opportunity brought us many times to talk about our work, our girlfriend(or girls) and our memory of the student era.

Only 5 hours we spent, but it was a good pastime in this summer. Now that all amusement of my three days summer vacation was finished, I'll have to work and to study English and Italian. My summer is finished.

I feel some solitary now, but last these three days will make it possible to do everything I have to do. That is to say Our friends gave me so much power and energy, I thought.



Posted at Wed Aug 15 10:07:01 UTC 2012
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★今日も軽めに日本語を書いていきます。
★わからないところはどこでも聞いてください。（英語のみ話せる方には英語にて対応致します）

①先一昨日は、中学校の同窓会に行ってきました。夜に行って結局、朝方まで語り合っちゃった・・。ｗ
１０年振りくらいにあった友達もいたし、とても深い話を友達と出来たりと、自分にとってプラスになることばかりでした。＾＾※詳細はfacebookを見てください。ユーザー名は　Akita Naohiko　です。


②昨日は、デートで花火大会に行ってきたよ。会場に近いところに行くのはお金がかかるし面倒だから、割と近場で前からここでも見れるじゃん？って思ってたところに行ってきました。普通の道路なんだけど、片側２車線で路側帯が広めだからみんなここと止めて花火見てた。ｗ今年の花火大会は特殊な花火が多くて、とにかく斬新！！ハートの形やキノコの形などの変わり種や、普通の花火だけどアレンジして細かい動きがめちゃくちゃ入ってる花火など、今まで見てきた中で一番おもしろかった。この日のために頑張ってよかったよ。


③花火大会後、彼女と予約してたいつものバーで飲み。今日は事前にお願いしていたコース料理を食べてきました。バーと言えども、料理はとてもレベルが高く、美味しいお店です。飲み放題だったからいつも飲んでるお酒はほとんど飲めなかったけど、たくさん話をして楽しかったし、久しぶりに美味しい料理とお酒が飲めて嬉しかった。今年の夏は何もできずに終わるかなと思ってたけど、最後にいい思い出が出来て本当に良かった。


④今日は友達とＢＢＱしに行きます。その前に英語の勉強しないと・・・ｗ今日でリフレッシュは終了・・。
あとはひたすら勉強と仕事に身を置こうかと思う。でも頑張れそうな気がする！ってか頑張らないと！ｗｗ

Posted at Tue Aug 14 23:29:15 UTC 2012
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If you didn't read "About my travel in 北海道 Part.13", please read that essey firstly.

There are more pictures of that day.

Posted at Mon Aug 13 10:49:38 UTC 2012
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Day 7 May 29th

【五稜郭(Goryoukaku)】

五稜郭 was built in order to protect 函館 seaport in Edo era. The most outstanding
characteristic is its shape. As its name says, it is like a star. In 1868(明治 era)
the 箱館（not 函館）war was began which was caused by both the army of new government(in Japanese 新政府軍) and the one of old government(in Japanese 旧政府軍）. This is one of the most famous wars in Japan. If you want to know more information, please examine by yourselves...^^;

There is also 五稜郭タワー(the tower of 五稜郭) near 五稜郭 which has an observatory on top of it. You can see not only a beautiful 函館 view but also the shape 五稜郭.
Oh and the history of 五稜郭 is exhibited here with many pictures and explanations.
Here I ate two gelatos.


【フランスのケーキ屋さん（the French cake shop)】

After visiting 五稜郭, I went to a cake shop which is recommended in my travel magazine. It costed me 1500yen, but I enjoyed even two cakes and a glass of coffee. As the magazine said, they were very marvelous and sophisticated.^^
Almost all of the guests were women, so at first I was embarrassed..^^; But I could really spend about two hours so happily.

Next day was my departure one, so I really wanted not to go back my home. I would stayed more...I felt something sad then...

※In this day, I took a lot of pictures, but I can't show you everything!!!!
These three photos are selected carefully, so you can enjoy its atomosphere^^

Posted at Mon Aug 13 10:26:42 UTC 2012
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Recentely I began to use facebook to communicate with my friends and many people.

So can I paste my address of facebook in this web?
Or can I show you my user name?


※Addition

If you want to make me friend, please search my real name.
And this picture is mine.

"Naohiko Akita"

I'm looking forward to hearing from you^^

Posted at Mon Aug 13 08:51:39 UTC 2012
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★日本語を勉強している方々向けに、日本語を書いてみます（という名目で実は英語を書く余力が無いだけ・・ww）

★もし、わからない表現があったら、遠慮せずに質問してください。


①日本は今、朝の７時です。今朝はとても早く起きてしまって寝不足気味・・・。最近どうも体調がよくなくて、あんまり寝れない・・。ってか朝と夜めっちゃ寒くて半袖じゃ寝れない。ｗ天気がころころ変わって暑いんだか寒いんだかすらわからなくなってきてる今日この頃。


②今日で塾の夏期講習の後期日程が半分終わります。英語を教えてまだ１ヵ月しか経ってないけど、発音も上手になったし、英語の教え方、生徒との接し方もだいぶ掴めてきました。会社辞めて良かったのかな、って思う時はあったけど、毎日英語をいっぱい勉強して、それを生徒に教えるというライフスタイルが確立できてきました。大変なことは多いけどそれでも楽しくやってます。^^今日もこれから一日中、英語を教えます。


③個人的に最近気になっているのは、日本と韓国で問題になっている「例のあの島」のことです。ニュースを見て、はっきり言ってどちらの国も馬鹿すぎると言うか、不甲斐なさを感じてます・・・。オリンピックの男子サッカー三位決定戦終了後の一件も今回の韓国大統領の訪問も、日本は深刻に考えるべきなのに、どうでもいい芸能情報やスポーツ情報を過度に報道し、この問題をメディアではあまりきちんと取り上げていません。もっと情報が欲しいのに・・。一刻も早く、両国間の諸問題が解決されることを願ってやみません。


④明日から日本ではお盆です。両親の実家にお墓参りに行ってきます。あと花火大会があるので、デートしてきます。^^vあっあと今日は中学校の同窓会。なんだかんだで卒業してから１０年も経つのに未だに仲が途切れないってのはすごいなと自分で思います。久しぶりに遊べるのでめっちゃ楽しみにしてる。

まずは今日の仕事を頑張らないと！！



※ちなみに写真は、マンガ「うる星やつら」のラムちゃんです。僕が一番好きなマンガのヒロインです。
日本の芸能人、中川翔子ちゃんが書いたものです。あまりに上手すぎたのでみんなに見てもらいたくて載せました。ｗ

Posted at Sat Aug 11 22:15:45 UTC 2012
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Last month, I come across certain rare vending machine!!

It selles worm Soba(the noodle made of buckwheat) with Tenpura(I could't what it was...). For the first time in my life, I experienced this strange vending machine.

According to information from web, there are some kinds of vending machines which offer noodles(not cupnoodles) like this. For example, Raman, Udon and Soba.

Though I like Soba very much, it tastes ummm....It became のびる(I don't know its English) and wasn't good...

However it was very exciteing experience for me.

Posted at Sat Aug 11 15:03:39 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1621910 http://lang-8.com/444167/journals/1621910 Nao Sat Aug 11 15:03:39 UTC 2012 You have given me many useful tips about English and my English ability is increasing steadily, I think.

So I'm going to assemble your corrections of my esseies, but I can't come up with a good method...

How do you collect them in yourselves and use them?
If there is a nice one, please let me know.^^

Posted at Wed Aug 08 11:16:02 UTC 2012
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I was absolutely considered that I'm not good at speaking English...
One of my classmates who I fall in love with(it's just joking^^;) can speak English
very well.

Her talking doesn't stop and she can show her thinking one after another!!
On the other hand, when I talk with my teacher, fitst I make my conversation in myself, then I speak English. It makes me embarrassed...

Improving my speaking ability is one of the things I have to do, but I have been bothered how I can do that. Must I only experience opportunities to talk with native speakers?

What do you think?


Posted at Tue Aug 07 14:07:34 UTC 2012
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Today I worked in my crum school about 4 hours, because half of the sepecial summer workshop was finished last week and this week I teach English for students as usual.
It being cooler than every other days, we are able to spend being comfortable.


Well, from now on I'll wtite about a perfume which is one of my hobbys.
(Not about "Perfume" which is the music group of Japan.ww)

I have bought a lot of perfumes and have experienced many kinds of scents. Judging from my friends and magazines, many Japanese men usually use the perfumes made for men, in short they have masculine smells. However I don't like such smells because they are too manly for me to continue smelling for a long time...

To my shame, I am attached to women's scent such as hair one, cosmetic one. Feminine scent fells like making me relaxed and ease. When I went out with my first girlfriend, she had given me nice scent every times. She always had made me happy. One day she bought me the Salvatore Ferragamo fragrance. It taught me goodness of perfumes and since then I have been absorbed in them.

Although I have used men's perfumes, I have absolutely loved ones for women.
I always put them on. I love especially "Rush 2" made by Gucci. Calvin Klein also invents wonderful perfumes.

What perfumes do you like?^^



Posted at Mon Aug 06 10:49:12 UTC 2012
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Day 6 May 28th

【洞爺湖(Toya Lake)】

Leaving 登別(Noboribetu), 洞爺湖 was next place. 洞爺湖 is the place on which the 34th G8 Summit was held in 2008. According to Wiki, in the year Hokkaido had bad economy, so the summit botherd Hokkaido in financial problem. However, the summit made 洞爺湖 more famous to all of Japanese.

There is the active volcano which is called Mt.Usu(有珠山), so those who have lived there have been damaged by its eruption for several times. Recently in 2000 the volcano erupted. Travelers can know its history in 洞爺湖町立火山科学館(the volcano museum in 洞爺). Of course I visited there and could know what the people have been taken the damage from the volcano and how they could revive from the disasters.


【Back to 函館(Hakodate)】

Maybe at 16:00 in the afternoon, I began to go back to 函館 that is to say my starting point of 北海道 travel. It was hard raining, but I could possibly return to 函館.

Since I couldn't see the nightview from 函館山(Mt.Hakodate), so I tried to go there and to watch it, but the top of the mountail still had thick cloud. Again I couldn't do it...

The weather wasn't likely to recover, so I walked around 函館.
After two days I had to go back my home. I didn't want to do that, because I became
to be a lover of 北海道...

Oh, I also went to bars today!!^^ One of them had a good nightview which was in a Hotel.

Posted at Sun Aug 05 11:01:18 UTC 2012
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Day 6 May 28th

【新千歳空港(the Shinchitose airport)】

Today I visited 新千歳空港 which is located in western from 十勝.
You think why I went to an airport,don't you? This is because 新千歳空港 has a large shopping mall and food courts.

Since I have not bought any souvenirs, so I wanted to buy them in that place.
Most of the famous Hokkaido's souvenirs are sold there. For example, some sweets, sake and even sushi!! I spend much money buying many things, but I was absolutely satisfied.


【登別温泉(Noboribetu spa)】
登別 is known to Japanese as one of the most famous spas. There are not only many
spas but also sightseeing spots. I went to 地獄谷(the Jigoku valley) which is a crater fo volcano and is still erupting with sulfur gas.

Travelers can go into it and experience the power of the volcano.
It smelled like bad eggs...^^;

登別 has a lot of spas, so if you will go there, you will be able to take many spas and enjoy its beautiful view!!



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Day 5 May 27th

【十勝平野(Tokachi plain)】

Leaving from 阿寒湖, I visited 十勝平野(Tokachi plain) which has a lot of 牧場(a stock farm), so there are many many milk cows.十勝平野 is located in central of 北海道 next to 帯広(Obihiro).Since I have heard that the road of 十勝 is so wide and straight that drivers are tend to sleep while driving.So I drove my car very carfully.

Today it was very sunny, so the driving was very comfortable and fun for me.^^

In that area,I went to ナイタイ高原牧場(Naitai highland stock farm) which is located in a high moutain.Although the view from there was very marvelous and nice,the most impressing thing was its milk.It was very deep and milky(but it was expensive.A glass of mlik was maybe 300yen.


【襟裳岬(Erimo cape)】

襟裳岬 is the place which is located in south of 北海道.From 十勝平野 to 襟裳岬 it took me 3 hours.This driving was the most borging in my travel....

Before the sun set, I could arrive there and watch the beautiful veiw with sun setting.It was one of the most inmpressive view in my life.^^But the wind was very
very strong and it was colder and colder...

Today I went to 温泉(spa) and lay down in my car.I didn't go to a bar because there wasn't any bars there....
I had been tired, but until then I had enjoyed my travel so much.

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Day 5 May 27th

【網走(Aabashiri) to 阿寒湖、屈斜路湖（the lake Akan and Kussharo)】

Although it has been rainy day since day 2,I have enjoyed my trip.
Above all Hokkaido foods made me happy and feel so good.

Today I went to 阿寒湖 and 屈斜路湖.阿寒湖 has a lot of marimos(in Enlish round green algas) which are registered as one of Japanese natural monuments.
There is a museum of marimo in 阿寒湖.We can watch cultivated marimos in it.

In 阿寒湖,I ate 鹿丼(a big bowl with roasted deer).Hokkaido has a lot of deers and
people often eats deer and crashes them while driving a car.
I have never eaten deer,so it was very surprising experience.
It tastes terrific and fantastic!!!^^It was like beef.No bad smell and peculiarity.


【十勝平野(Tokachi plain)】
To be continued....

Posted at Mon Jul 30 12:28:39 UTC 2012
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Today it was 36 degrees in my city!!It has been hot since this morning...

Well,I'd like to write about the prices of some goods in Japan.

As you know,Japanese goods are known to be too expensive.I'll introduce you some examples as follows.You'll try to convert them in terms of American dollars(here 1$=80yen)



・コーラ(cola)350ml = 120yen

・マクドナルドのハンバーガー(hamburger of Macdonald) = 100yen

・ホテル一泊(stay in hotel for one day) = 3000yen~30000yen

・一か月の携帯電話使用料(monthly fee of using cell phone) = 8000yen~10000yen

・ラーメン１杯　＝　600yen~1000yen

・マンガ１冊（a comic book) = 400yen~1000yen

・タバコ１箱(cigarret) = 400yen~440yen

・新聞(newspaper) = 100yen~140yen

・スターバックス(StarBucks) = 300yen~600yen

・新車(new car) = 800000yen~4000000yen



Although these are as I know,maybe it is sure.

If you want to more information,please send me a message.



Posted at Mon Jul 30 12:06:03 UTC 2012
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Day 4 May 26th

【In 網走(Abashiri)】

After visiting 網走刑務所,I went to the drift ice museum in 網走.
We can not only watch some creatures live in the sea of Hokkaido(such as クリオネ) but also experience the world of -20 degrees!!In that condition,a wet towel is frozen by shaking it.It was very interesting for me.ww

At night I also went to some bars and drink cocktails.^^
In the bar of 網走, I could experience a unique cocktail which tastes kind of cheese cakes.Very fantastic and marvelous one!!!
But I drunk too much cocktails every those day...
It costed me 8000yen every day...

By the way,what essey do you want me to write about 北海道 from now on?
Places or foods or cocktails?w
Let me know^^

Posted at Sun Jul 29 09:14:58 UTC 2012
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Day 4 May 26th

【稚内（Wakkanai) to 網走(Abashiri)】

I got up at 5:00 in my car.It was rainy day and very cold!!It was too cold to sleep any longer,so I left 稚内 at 6:00 to 網走 where is northeast of Hokkaido.

The distance is about 200 km.Driving car in rainy day and so long made me so bored and depressed...

On the way to 網走 there were a few sightseeing spots.紋別(Monbetu) is the famous place where has drift ice in winter and manmy people come here to watch it.


【In 網走(Abashiri)】

I was going to sleep in my car like yesterday,but it was very cold outside(maybe the temparture was 3~5 degrees) so I stayed in hotel.

I went to some place in 網走.網走 has the most famous prison what is called 網走刑務所.A long time ago 網走刑務所 was the most terrible and cruelest one in Japan.Its conditon was very poor and humble especially when winter comes,it seems that many prisoners froze to death.

Now that it becomes one of sightseeing spots in Hokkaido,so we can see its history.I was so impressed with it.

Posted at Sun Jul 29 08:48:34 UTC 2012
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