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31/12/2008 314) Good bye 2008Good bye
   !Good bye unlucky age (climacteric age)!!  I 've just had a 'toshikoshi soba' with my darling.
 Nagano's soba is sooooooooo Beautiful!
Okay! I'll go to a shrine with BF now.
Hope it will be a great year 2009  21/12/2008 312) Choco is famous!My lovely Choco is famous recently! Look at these photos! She is on posters!!!
She is in an art museum!
Choco is famous!!
Click here for further information 13/12/2008 315) Akiyoshido(cave) in Yamaguchi PrefectureLast week I went to Yamaguchi Prefecture for some work-related reasons.
After I finished my duty there, however, I visited the cave called 'Akiyoshido'.
Actually I've been to Akiyoshido before (I think I was 5 years old at the time), and if there was a chance again to visit Yamaguchi-ken, I would absolutely go to there. I visited Akiyoshido yesterday because I remember that when I first saw the cave as a child I got a huge shock,
The cave was sooooooooo amazing. Well, Let's learn all about Akiyoshido!
Akiyoshido (秋芳洞) is the largest cave in Japan and the second largest in all of Asia.
Akiyoshido is a masterpiece of natural art and is located under Akiyoshidai
which is the largest karst formation in Japan.
The cave entrance is northwest of Yamaguchi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
 This unique karst landscape covers a total of 130 square kilometers and contains more than 300 caves.
The temperature in the cave stays constant all year (about 17℃).
The cave was named "Akiyoshido" by Crown Prince Showa during his visit in 1926.
Before, it was (not so imaginatively) called Taki-ana or waterfall hole.
Akiyoshido took over 300,000 years to form and is still slowly being shaped by water flowing out of the karst plateau above.
The main enterance to the cave is at the bottom of the plateau
where the river of water following out from the cave exits.
 Walking through the tall and narrow entrance slit reveals a seemingly impossible sized space
which is up to 100 meters wide.
 'Long deep water'
Portions are so wide and tall that it ceases to feel like you're in a cave.
For that matter, the faux-wood fence on the concrete path and flood lights don't help either.
It feels a bit like a cathedral.
 'lime flower waterfall'
 It's not the most spectacularly beautiful cave in its lower sections for the most part.
Colored flood lights are used to dress up what is really mostly only mottled brown rocks.
 'Umbrella show'
Its sheer size more than makes up for this and
midway through there are a number of interesting distinctive rock formations.
The highest accessible area where the path leaves the underground river packs in a lot more interesting features.
 It is called '100 large plates
I love the place! When I was 5 I was so shocked when I first saw it!  Dry Fall
rice fields
 'golden pillar' is the most famous in the cave
It is 15metres high and 4metres wide!
The stalactite takes 100 years to grow by 3cm!!! In all, about 1.5 km of cave tunnels can be trekked through.
It takes about 1 hour to have a look at a cave but I was in the cave for 2 hours.
When i was 5 years old I got a huge shock because the cave was soooooooooooooooooooo amazing.
This time was no different! I had that same impression again!
I'm happy that I didn't lose that pure, innocent kid's mind!
 Ahhhh I really like the amazing cave!
It was a really lovely day!
Next year I wanna take Pikun with me
Please look at more photos in Akiyoshido album.
Souvenirs from Akiyoshido
 Stalactite (brown, \100) and Marble (pink, \250)
Can you see growth rings?
 The right side is the upper part of the icicle. The left is the lower part of the icicle. 02/12/2008 314) Choco is 1 year old todayHappy Birthday Choco! She is one year old now.
When she became my child, looked like ↓
She was a still small cutie baby.
Actually, she was born on Oct, and looked like a small dinosaur and she came to my house on 2nd of Dec, so today is Choco's one year old birthday
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You always make me
Thank you very very much for becoming my lovely child, Choco. |
by your Jocularity character. Sooo funny.
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