投稿者: liangzhilaoshi

I went to Kanto Region last Saturday by Local Trains

A ticket for high-speed railways “Shin-kansen” is expensive. Plus, Jo’etsu shinkansen runs through so many tunnels, you cannot enjoy the view from train window in mountainous area. So, I didn’t use a high-speed railway, but got on a local trains to go to Kanto Region on Saturday.

This is the town where LQ laoshi was born fifty-some years ago.

Needed to transfer to another train at Nagaoka.

View from the train window, it’s under dark clouds.

It’s still under dark clouds, because the train was still in Niigata Prefecture.

The train from Nagaoka brought me to “Minakami” in Gumma Prefecture.

Station Building of Minakami

The sky was bule in Gumma, it’s different from Niigata.

I’m back. My hometown in Rural Region is much better than Tokyo.

On the way back, the high-speed train “Shin-kansen” was so crowded with passengers. I had to be standing at the end section of a train car until the trains got to Takasaki where is a kind of mid-point between Tokyo and Niigata.

When the trains departed Takasaki, I got a non-reserved seat.

Finally I got to my hometown in Niigata Plain. Now I’m going to upload this post from the living room of my house.

My Eyes can see Snow on the Mountain. But it is not clear on Photo

Goldenrod

Japanese pampas grass

Ducks on the water

A Shrine in a Village

Persimmons on a tree

When I was a kid a half century ago, this was a timber bridge. Its width was so narrow that only a small vehicle could cross.

I could see snow on Mountain Iide(飯豊山地) with my eyes, but it was not clear on a photo. I have processed the above photo much.

Since I’ve been in my house all day, I have nothing to write today.

This was not in Niigata but in the CAMPUS: 2019

Some students have sent me emails in these two days. I would like to thank them; I am very happy to read their messages. And the next thing I got to do is to write replies. Yesterday I wrote my reply to one student. Actually, I should have written to five students today, but as of 8 p.m., I have done none yet. I am sorry to say but, give me a little bit of time to reply to you guys.

And the followings are a little about me. My elbow of right hand is still aching so that I can’t play my bass. My elbow started aching in July and now it’s the end of October. It had been getting better very slowly, but one week ago, I just tried playing my bass with very light touches of my fingers. I played 15minutes only, but this was very bad for my elbow. I feel that my curing process went back more than one month. Now I think I should not play bass in the rest of this year. I practice piano every day at 4 p.m., but I play only with my left hand.

Another thing about me is that I will go to Tokyo this weekend. I asked one of my students in Tokyo if he would be able to drink with me in the night or not, but he said he couldn’t because he needed to work for a part time job in that day. I thought I was going to stay longer in Tokyo in order to adjust to his schedule, but I gave up this idea, because I cannot leave my old mother in the house more than one-night. I need to go home soon. I think this raises a problem that I cannot travel to far from my home in Niigata, though I wanted to travel to many places in Japan.