Wednesday, 31 October 2007

My home town - Suwa

I live in Suwa-city, which is located in the middle of Nagano prefecture. It has a population of 52,850 people.

It has a lake, called Suwa-ko, which is not only famous as a sightseeing place, but also notorious for its dirty water.

The altitude of Suwa-city is 761m, and it is very comfortable in summer season. However, in winter, it is colder than Matsumoto-city. Sometimes Suwa-ko is frozen and a mysterious phenomenon called "Omiwatari" appears. This is not an annual event.

Suwa-ko is well known for its fireworks festival. It is held on the 15th of August every year. The fireworks are very beautiful and have a powerful sound. They really impress to the crowds. The number of spectators is approximately 450,000. It causes heavy traffic jams for all of Suwa-city. You can see the fireworks on the website below on demand.(Sorry, this website is written only Japanese.)


There are five Japanese-Sake cellars. In spring and autumn, they have a festival called "Kamisuwa kaiko nomiaruki." It means "Drinking and walking on the Kamisuwa-street."
You can drink as much as you like, and the fee is JPY2,000.(The year before last, the fee was only JPY1,000. It was a very reasonable price.)
You can taste many kinds of Japanese-Sake. You may feel very happy.
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6 comments:

  1. jimThursday, November 01, 2007 3:00:00 am

    Kaz,

    I guess you found your password then ;) Good post - lots of very useful information thank you.

    I started a new sidebar, with websites from you guys about your hometowns; hope to add to it!

    Keep up the good work, and well done on your first blog entry!

    PS I'm still jealous you saw Queen at the budokan...

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  2. kazThursday, November 01, 2007 1:06:00 pm

    Jim-sensei,

    I found grammatical mistakes after I posted this blog.
    I would appreciate if you would correct my mistakes about this homework.

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  3. jimThursday, November 01, 2007 2:30:00 pm

    Ok - I'll edit it this time...next time you do it, alright?

    Hint: use 'word' and think about changing where it underlines in green? (Spelling in red).

    Cheers! Jim

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  4. kazWednesday, November 07, 2007 6:17:00 pm

    Jim-sensei,

    Thank you for your correction.
    I will share this correction with my colleague e.g. Yutaka.

    I confirmed my original homework by using "word".
    But there is no underlines in green.

    Thanks,

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  5. kazWednesday, November 07, 2007 6:57:00 pm

    >But there is no underlines in green.

    Correcttion.

    But there is no underlines in green as grammatical mistakes.

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  6. jimSunday, November 25, 2007 12:35:00 am

    Try writing your posting in 'word' first & use the checking tools there? After that, copy & paste.

    Jim

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