Nagoya Station

Looking out at the Nagoya Skyline from the JR Shinkansen Platform

To Do List

The other day I ran across a Nagoya Tourist Map. I am turning this map into my year in Nagoya to do list.

Christmas at Nagoya Station

Baseball

Saturday evening, along with M, L, Y, N, Y, and YM, I watched the Chunichi Dragons beat the Yokohama BayStars 6-1 at the Nagoya Dome.To my partial disappointment the stadium is not open air, I say partial because the temperatures are still in the high 80s to the air conditioning was much appreciated.

Apparently Japanese sports crowds are polite enough to be permitted to use chopsticks during the game.Edamame was a popular snack.

Super fans celebrating after the win. Note that the women on the right is wearing her jersey as a dress with thigh high black stockings and heals.

Toyota Commemorative Museum

As part of my ICT training I visited the Toyota Commemorative Museum today. The museum traced the history of Toyota Motor Corporation from its beginning as a spinning and weaving company to it's present condition. The Museum focused on the technological development and production, of the very few cars in the museum most were reproductions.

The museum also had a lens exhibit as it's rotating collection it featured various antique cameras, telescopes, microscopes and slide projectors. My favorite display was a demonstration of a 100 year old projector using re colored slides of photos from the same era.

Another display that I also enjoyed was the Toyota robots, built for the 2005 world expo held in Nagoya. The robots were built to play musical instruments.


*Apologies for the sideways video, if you have a suggestion for how to correct it please let me know!

First Night

My first night living in Japan, as opposed to just visiting, was last night. My flight arrived in the evening, after the time allowed for moving into my apartment, so I stayed at a Hotel near Nagoya station. Jet lagged I found myself looking out the window in the middle of the night.