Travelog for: Aura

Today, The small packet arrived from Germany.
White sea gull said. "I guess it is a new TV guest".
Yellow frog said "Please open it".
When the envelope was opened, the ladybug was sleeping on the pillow of  mint chocolate candy.
Zzz...Zzz...Zzz...
She is a cute ladybird Aura from Finland.
"moi moi, Hallo!, Hello!".
She showed a beautiful postcard and mint chocolate candy to everyone.
My new host Yoko said "Dear Dr.Kröbner,Thank you for beautiful postcard and candy".

See you soon!

Today I went to Yokohama Kamiooka in order  to watch some public art statue.
I saw boy who were fishing star.
I think he fished star to use for christmas tree.

Then I see boy that looks like frog.
and funny plant .

At last I see girl.
To be surprising ,she play  danger blanco.
this blanco at 15m above floor.

These are creation of Yoshitomo Nara(Japanese artist).

I am reading a book at home.
Today I was going to go to  local festivals, but today is rain.
So I can not go festivals.

Now AM9:00, but Japan is a very hot and humid(+33c and 62%) and strong wind.
But we went to "Umi-Kaze park"(Umi means Sea, Kaze means wind) by bicycle and my host.

We enjoyed playground equipment here.
And Many people will visit for fishing and camping and barbecue.

You can see uninhabited island called "Saru-shima"(Saru means monkey, Shima means island) in Tokyo Bay from this park .
Though it is Sarushima(Monkey Island), monkeys do not live...
Why called Monkey Island ?
We had good old story, monkey helped great monk Nichiren here 750 years ago.
Great monk Nichiren had been drifting at sea.
Monkey taught direction of land for Nichiren.
He narrowly survived.

I went back to the home since we too hot.

Ohayou gozaimasu ! (Good morning !).
At first, I found a beautiful morning glory.
Morning Glory is plants that first grade of Japanese student grow in science class first.
And we went on a bicycle with my host to the "Tonbo no Oukoku(means kingdom of dragonfly, dragonfly means tonbo, kingdom means oukoku)".
Today is very hot, we have a hat of orange blossom.
But hat was blown off by strong wind.
"Kingdom of dragonfly" is a place where plants were grown while recycling the sewage.
There were a lot of dragonfly in there, but they refused to photography, and ran away.
I rested a little in leaves of water lilies when sun was very dazzling for me.
Then we visited home of ants or cicada, But they are going out.
We go back home because so hot here.
See you soon!

Hello!
I was learn how to say in Japanese "A beautiful ladybird".
"beautiful" is "utsukushii".
"ladybird" is "Tentoumushi".
"A beautiful ladybird" in Japanese... "Utsukushii Tentoumushi".
"I am a beautiful ladybird" in Japanese..."Watashi wa Utsukushii Tentoumushi desu."
I could say "Watashi wa Utsukushii Tentoumushi desu."
Japanese grammar is different from English, but it is easy for me because pronunciation is similar Finnish.

Fun days is likely to start today.
My host's old son have sports festival at the high school.
That sounds fun.
I get up AM 5:30.
I helped my host that so make a Bento(lunch) for her old son in early morning.
It is a special Bento(lunch) today.
"Futomaki(Sushi roll)" with fried egg, cucumber, sweetened dried gourd shavings, and called Kanikama(crab sticks).
This is the tradition of my host's home, she makes Futomaki for special day.
Futomaki was yummy.

We took a train after we made lunch.
You can see subway(Oedo line Tochomae station), We arrived It was Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
You can see Tokyo from 45th floor observation deck of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (height of 202m).
There are a lot of public art at around and lot of posters of Tokyo Olympics of 2020.
When we visited Tokyo, Host of Olympic was not decided.
Today,Olympics has decided to Tokyo!!!
Many people are pleased.
Banzai!(Hurray!)

Then We came to "Tokyo Skytree".
The Tokyo Skytree is a new television broadcasting tower and landmark of Tokyo.
With a height of 634 meters (634 can be read as "Musashi", a historic name of the Tokyo Region), it is the tallest building in Japan and the second tallest structure in the world at the time of its completion.
A large shopping complex "Tokyo Solamachi" with aquarium is located at its base.
I found interesting that plastic food samples shop in "Tokyo Solamachi".

We went to a very popular Sensoji Buddhist Temple.
Sensoji ("Senso" is an alternative reading for Asakusa and "ji" means temple) is Tokyo's most famous and popular temple. Built in the 7th century, it is also one of its oldest, although the current buildings are postwar reconstructions.

We went to the Edo-Tokyo Museum.
It is one of the popular museum in foreign travelers.
The Edo-Tokyo Museum was founded on March 28th 1993, as the place where we come to learn more about Tokyo’s history and culture, and which also serves as a projection onto the city and the living of the future.
You can see, in the Permanent Exhibition area, there can be found original and replicated exhibits, as well as large-scale models, faithful representations of their originals, which had been reproduced after painstaking investigations and research.
It is easy to lose track of time when We are in here.
We had a wonderful time today.
See you later.
your Aura

Hello!

Today,Temperature is somewhat sultry 30 degrees.
It is because the typhoon is approaching.

We came to the Kasuga shrine .
Sacred air is there and we can relax.

You can see Guardian dogs(called Komainu) in a shrine.
A komainu "stone lion" in Chinese and "imperial guardian lion" in English) is an imaginary mythical beast that resembles a dog and lion mixed together.

Komainu greeted me with a smile.
We had hug and said good bye.

Konbanwa!(=Good evening!)
I could see harvest moon.
It is said that On the moon's surface,these shadows looked like a rabbit making rice cakes.
Oyasuminasai(=Good night)

We went to "Kanagawa university of human services."
Today is closed because it is Sunday.
It was founded ten years ago, This university is a small university.
Here, it can learn about nursing or social welfare.

We went to the "Hiroyama park" in Zushi for one of Prajna's life missions "See Mountain Fuji in Japan".
Here is a good scenic spot of view.
We could see many monkeys,peafowl, etc.in park.
We played in lovely small flower garden.
Although it may be unable to see with a photograph, we were able to see the slightly highest mountain "Mt. Fuji" in Japan.
Mt.Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan.
The mountain is 3,776 m tall and famous for its beautiful symmetrical cone shape.
The mountain last erupted about 300 years ago. 
This year UNESCO added Mt.Fuji to the list of World Heritage sites for its universal and and outstanding cultural value.