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| Nagoya Tram and Subway Museum | | 2008-06-16 04:13:00 | | I visited the Nagoya Tram and Subway Museum earlier in the week.Its near Akaike subway station on the Tsuramai Line.Theres a wall map at the station.The museum is basically a block behind the station.Turn right as you leave Exit 2.Walk straight down the hill.At the end of the street turn right and head towards the traffic lights and Route 153.At the intersection cross the road and turn right.You should be heading up the hill on Route 153.Theres a big sign indicating the museum over the traffic lanes.There are four old tram and subway cars on display in the Museum.In the middle of the display hall there are a number of computer and interactive displays which proved popular with the noisy throngs of kids present.Another drawcard was the large model railway based loosely on Nagoya.There were model buildings of JR Central Towers and Nagoya TV Tower around which model shinkansen trains circled endlessly.With their noses and fingers pressed firmly against the display glass an employee was c | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
| | The World Of Monet..Nagoya Boston Museum | | 2008-05-04 21:08:00 | | Currently showing at the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya is an exhibition entitled The World of Claude Monet.There are 25 Monet works on show as well as paintings by some of his contemporaries such as Degas,Renoir and Manet.There is only one of his waterlily paintings on display.Its the last item on the guide and takes centre stage in the final room of paintings.For me,however,the real highlights came earlier.Monet seemed to have a thing about haystacks and painted numerous ones at different times of the day.The example included in this exhibition appeared to light up and illuminate the whole area.Examining the canvas closely,(I could virtually touch the paintings glass with my nosetip as there is a welcome absence of barriers or ropes),it appears to a series of haphazard,indiscriminate daubs and brushstrokes of paint.It is only stepping back from the wall that the whole thing coalesces and you can see the graduations and transition of light which Monet and the other Impres | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
| | Nagoya Design Do! 2008 | International Competition - Sixth Edition | | 2008-03-17 15:04:33 | | O Nagoya Design Do! é um programa concebido para que jovens designers desenvolvam suas habilidades e possam trocar experiências entre si. É uma competição bienal, dirigida para jovens do mundo todo. Os vencedores serão convidados para participarem de um workshop na cidade de Nagoya.
Em 2008 acontece a sua sexta edição e o tema é “The [...] | | By: aletp | | |
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| Walking through Nagoya | | 2008-03-12 08:04:00 | | On Sunday, Maiko and I decided to go for a walk through Nagoya. We started in Meieki (the area around Nagoya station) and walked through Fushimi to Sakae. If you take the subway you can get from any of these stations to the other within 5 minutes, but on foot it takes a lot longer, especially our way.The Midland Square building is celebrating it’s 1st anniversary and they invited a Tuna to play for their Japanese customers. A Tuna is a musical group made up of university students playing traditional Spanish music. It’s an old Spanish tradition and many universities in Spanish speaking countries have their own Tunas. They have interesting costumes and go out to play to earn some money as university students are notoriously broke all the time. Usually these groups are made up out of men, but there are also some female Tunas out there, for example in Maastricht. I was actually part of that Tuna for about a year. That’s right, I used to sing and play Spanish songs on a guitar in publ | | By: The Loulogue | | |
| | Nagoya Auto Trend 2008 | | 2008-03-10 06:39:00 | | Having had my fill of culture recently,I decided to join the throngs and head off to see the annual car show.It was the first time I'd used the Aonami train as well as visit both the car show and the Port Messe Nagoya complex.The Aonami line begins at Nagoya Station and ends some 25 minutes and 350 yen later on the industrial commercial side of the Port.Port Messe is a sprawling complex of exhibition halls and conference venues.The Nagoya Auto Trend show ran for three days and displays spread over three huge halls.As well as the major local Japanese car manufacturers being present a number of luxury foreign car makers also had displays such as BMW,Audi and Mercedes Benz. There were a number of F1 racing cars on display including this vehicle.Its the first time Ive tried to take photos at a car show and I encountered a number of problems.The first problem was the different light levels round each display.Spotlights and coloured lights,flashing indicator lights and glare from all the met | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
| | Takahashi hoping to secure Olympic spot in Nagoya marathon | | 2008-03-01 03:41:02 | | Sydney Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi is hoping to secure a spot in the Beijing Olympics through the Nagoya marathon.
Takahashi won the Nagoya marathon in 1998 and 2000.
To secure her spot in the Japanese team, she needs to get a better time than Tomo Morimoto.
Read more: Takahashi looks for Olympic berth in Nagoya marathon
Athletics [...] | | By: Beijing Olympics 2008 | | |
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| Hokusai Exhibition Nagoya City Art Museum | | 2008-02-11 03:51:00 | | Hard on the heels of the ukiyo-e display currently underway at the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Kanayama is the Hokusai exhibition which opened on the 9th at the Nagoya City Art Museum.Subtitled "Siebold and Hokusai and his Tradition" there are many examples of Hokusai's work on display.Some,apparently, are on show in Japan for the first time having been loaned from the Bibliotheque nationale de France and the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.From the brief English language notes at the Museum and a little googling Ive been able to work out how Siebold fits into the scheme of things and gets to share the headlines with Hokusai.Philipp F. von Seibold was a resident physician at Deshima,an island in Nagasaki harbour which was a Dutch trading post set up by the Japanese government of the day.He undertook extensive research into many areas including among other things the local geography,flora and fauna,botany,history and arts.His book "Nippon"which described his research r | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
| | Bon Jovi in Nagoya ~ Nagoya Dome (January 11, 2008) | | 2008-01-11 09:30:00 | | Today at 13:00 I started posting the side-exit of the Shinkansen at Nagoya Station, because Bon Jovi was due to arrive there between 13:00 and 15:00. How did I know that? One of my students found out and left a message for me at the school! I have no idea where he got that information, but I wasn't going to waste that intelligence! I wasn’t the only one waiting for Bon Jovi, so that reinforced my belief that Bon Jovi was actually arriving there. After a little more than an hour they popped up out of the crowd, right in front of me, here at Nagoya Station! I've never seen Bon Jovi in my ‘hometown’ (Nagoya kind of is home these days), I was always ‘visiting’ Bon Jovi in some strange city, now they came to me… kind of. I tried to take pictures but the Japanese security kept ordering us to put our cameras away... I have no idea why they care so much about our taking pictures but all the Japanese fans were very obedient and put there cameras away and instead started waving at the band. But me, always the dumb foreigner, pretended I had no idea what they were talking about and I still managed to take a few pictures. They aren't great but it’s still better than nothing:Hugh McDonald at Nagoya StationBobby Bandiera and Richie Sambora at Nagoya StationDavid Bryan at Nagoya StationJon Bon Jovi at Nagoya StationJon and David in the van (no sign of Tico anywhere)Next stop was Nagoya Dome, but to my surprise very little was going on there, no huge crowds of exhausted people lying, sitting, standing around the stadium, and no huge posters promoting tonight’s show. I walked all around the dome (because I was looking for the fanclub-ticket-pick-up-place) and there was absolutely nothing exciting going on there. In Europe, we always spend more than 24 hours in and around the concert venue, and there’s always loads going on and lots of excitement in the air, here in Nagoya: nothing… When I picked up my tickets, I was slightly disappointed to find out we were se | | By: The Loulogue | | |
| | Nagoya with Yasu | | 2007-11-26 08:02:00 | | I did my Christmas shopping last week, but Yasu (who’s coming home with me for the holidays) still had to do his and he needed my help. So this weekend we spent two days in the streets of Nagoya, dragging our tired bodies from store to store… but of course we had enough fun along the way.I’ve always thought Yasu knows too many people and he will almost always run into somebody he knows, even when he’s not on his own territory, which he’s not in Nagoya. But we haven’t even left Nagoya station yet and he bumps into an old friend who currently lives and studies in the States, but happened to be in Japan for just 3 days to attend a wedding. What are the odds?After catching up with his old friend Yusuke and buying a truckload of expensive Shinkansen tickets for my numerous upcoming trips to Osaka and Tokyo, we were hungry. I have wanted to try Japanese udon (thick noodles) for a while so we searched for a hole in the wall shop, and found a pretty nice place (slightly larger than | | By: The Loulogue | | |
| | Shopping in Nagoya | | 2007-11-23 02:52:00 | | Sure, I’m in Japan but somehow a lot of Dutch things still cross my path here all the time. For example, this display of KLM merchandise which I stumbled upon during my Christmas shopping last Monday. In the luggage department of the ‘Loft’, a cool Japanese department store mostly famous for its stationary, without any warning I found all this KLM stuff. It wasn’t like there was a display of merchandise for every country’s official airline, I couldn’t even find any kind of merchandise of the Japanese airlines. KLM doesn’t even fly to Nagoya Airport either, I have to go all the way to Osaka to catch a KLM flight home in December. They also had some mannequins wearing the KLM gear in the middle of all the expensive suitcases, but I forgot to take a picture of them.Then there is of course ‘Nijntje’ or internationally known as ‘Miffy’. Dick Bruna’s rabbit is famous and popular all over the world, even in Japan. And I see Nijntje and her friends pop up everywhere, ev | | By: The Loulogue | | |
| | Friday Flash..Nagoya Summer Sumo Tournament | | 2007-07-20 16:15:00 | | I went along to the thirteenth day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament held in the Nagoya Prefectural Gym adjacent to Nagoya Castle.I had the above bento mid-morning as I'd woken up late and skipped breakfast.The bento came in a bag which contained the two polystrene boxes above.The left hand box contains various vegetables and pickled food as well as a huge prawn lurking on the bottom of the box.The right hand box contains rice on which is shredded egg,a small piece of eel which I almost choked on,pink ginger and orange salmon roe.All of which add flavour to the somewhat overcooked and otherwise bland rice.Not really a bargain at 1500 yen,more a part of the ritual of going to the sumo. As for the sumo itself,well that can wait till Monday. | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
| | Springtime in Shirotori Garden Nagoya | | 2007-04-09 03:05:00 | | A few shots from Shirotori Garden in Nagoya from last Friday.There are a variety of cherry blossoms in Shirotori Gardens with different shaped and shaded petals and blossoms.The photo above shows a traditional style weeping cherry blossom with pink oval shaped blossoms.The blossoms in the photo above are predominantly white while there is a small highlight of pink in some of the petals.The pink and white blossoms on the same branch look a bit odd.In fact the tree appears to be a grafted variety with both white and pink circular blossoms covering the tree.Finally another photo of a weeping style pink petalled cherry blossom tree. | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
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