Wakayama ramen Ide shoten

 I traveled to Wakayama city in Japan and tried Wakayama ramen.

I went to Ide shoten which is very old and famous ramen restaurant in  Wakayama.

This ramen is Porky soup and soy sauce taste (Tonkotsu-shoyu) with many roasted pork slices. So good!!

But, the inside of this restaurant was very dirty.

Mauritius underwater waterfall from airplane

When I went to Mauritius, I could see it from Airplane.

Goethe Monument at Vienna

Last month, I traveled to Vienna.

The Goethe monument

He is listening something... 

Softbank 007z and C01HW don't have GSM mode ?

Recently, I traveled on business to Philadelphia, USA.  I brought my sim-unlocked 007z and C01HW, wifi mobile routers.  My 007z was flashed by 007z for BIZ firmware.  C01HW is a sim-free model originally outside Japan.  As far as I know, it was not obvious whether 007z and C01HW were usable in GSM area or not.  I tried them with T-mobile SIM.

T-mobile USA is using 3G of 1700/2100MHz (AWS), which is of course not supported by 007z nor C01HW.
Softbank 007z and C01HW recognized T-mobile sim but displayed "No Service".  I check every settings on the web-based utillities but they never connected T-mobile USA.  Therefore, it is supposed that 007z and C01HW don't support GSM mode as well as AWS.

My ISW13HT could connect T-Mobile USA at most EDGE speed.

Commemorative Coins for the 50th Anniversary of the Shinkansen

I got the commemorative coins for the 50th anniversary of the Shinkansen (新幹線, bullet train).

They are the five kinds of 100 JPY coins. The details in here (japanese).

Dazaifu Tenmangu

Dazaifu Tenmangu at Fukuoka, Japan, enshrining the God of literature or scholarship.

Umegaemochi (梅ヶ枝餅), the baked rice-cake sweets, are very popular local foods.  The fleshly baked ones are delicious due to hotness and scroch.

Akihabara station and Detective Conan

Today, when I transferred at Akihabara station, I saw the set of Detective Conan (名探偵コナン).

It is a advatising campaign of the japanese special TV movie "名探偵コナン 江戸川コナン失踪事件〜史上最悪の二日間〜" on Dec.26.2014.  This TV movie is collaborated with '12 japanese movie "Key of life (鍵泥棒のメソッド)".  It is said that we can get some special informations if we call the telephone numbers written in posters on the notice board.

ISW13HT HTC J on FOMA plus area

HTC J (ISW13HT), japanese custom model of HTC valente, is my favorite smartphone.  It has been developped to get ROOT, S-off, and SIM unlock (link in japanese).  Recently, I'm using HTC J with Docomo MVNO data-only SIM (iijmio).  In previous android versions,  the problem of "cell standby" battery drainnig would occur in a data-only SIM according to here.
However, the improved fix of HTC J was already disclosed in here (japanese).

In addition, the special modification for HTC J to catch FOMA plus area (W-CDMA 800MHz band XIX) was also disclosed in here.  I adapted these mods to my HTC J with some difficulties.

Yesterday, I traveled to Hokkaido on business.  Then , I comfirmed the above mentioned mods worked well (connection was established on FOMA plus area and antenna pict was displayed).

Fukuoka gourmet

My favorite hakata ramen restrant KAITEN (廻天).

 Tonkotsu ramen is very good.

Eel bowl at Yoshizuka unagi (吉塚うなぎ屋).

However, I felt this eel bowl worse than that I ate 3 years ago because of soggy rice. 

SKYMARK airlines

SKYMARK is the No.1 (gossipful) LCC airline.  I boarded SKYMARK's new A330 when I traveled to Fukuoka on business.

The new "Green Sheet" was very wide and comfortable like the premium economy sheet of lagacy carrier.

BUT, no CA wore the special uniform (announced six-month campaign from May 31) and SKYMARK FREE WIFI (in-flight wifi service) didn't connect at all.

Tunnel fire !?

The Tokyo metropolitan expressway sprays water-mist into Yamate Tunnel to prevent the tunnel temperature from rising (japanese).  Yesterday, it was very hot day.  I saw so much mist that I misunderstand the tunnel fire.

Eel bowl in Shinagawa

I like the Unagi (eel) very much.  Today, I visited Marutomi in Shinagawa, Tokyo.  This restaurant is near from Tokyo Hanada Airport.

I walked from Aomono Yokocho station and soon arrived.  It was very small restaurant without air-conditon.

This is double (eel) bowl.  Its sauce is a littel salty rather than sweet, of cause very delicious. 

Gifu

 last week, I traveled to Gifu to watch the fireworks festival.  Gifu is one of the hottest (temperature) places in Japan.  Of couse, it was very very hot day.

The golden Oda Nobunaga, the very famous japanese samurai lord.

The fish-shaped traditional sweets Ayugashi, limited-sold in summer. 

Eel bowl in Kawagoe

Today, I went to Kawagoe, Saitama on business.  For lunch, I visited Pon Poko Tei, where my business partner recommended as the best eel restaurant.  This special bowl of eel and rice was so tasty much.  A sweet but salty sauce aroused my appetite.

Google street view car

I saw the street view car for the first time.