8/22/99
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I went to a swimming pool at 6:30 in the morning
and walked in water 300 meters. As I forgot to bring ear plugs,
I did not swim. As no one was here except me, I got a permission
to take a picture of empty swimming pool. |
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When I broke my leg five years ago, I walked
in the swimming pool every early morning as rehabilitation exercise.
The walking in water was not popular at that time and so I walked
500 meters in water every time having inferiority complex. But
these days quite a few people, mostly elder people, are walking
in water. The walking lane is separated from swimmers lane at
the swimming pool. So I do not feel weak while I walk in the pool.
Someone said walking in water is much better exercise than swimming.
Do you believe it or not?
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About three o'clock in the afternoon, I went to
Landmark Tower in Yokohama. They said number of visitors surpassed
10 millions. The view of tower from my country club looks alike
a big tombstone. Someone said that it was a memorial statue of
Japan's bubble economy. So I did not feel appetite for visiting
it. These days mass media praised it as one of the nice spots
for sightseers. That was why I came down here. |
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Five minutes walk from JR Sakuragicho Station
brings you to the entrance of a long elevated corridor with moving
roads connecting to the tower. An old sailing ship "Nihon-maru"
was moored to a small dry dock on the right side of corridor
as a historical memorial. |
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The civilian volunteers hoisted up to full sales
this morning. People could see a gallant view of the ship. All
sales were hauled down on our way back from the tower.@ |
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The tower has 70 floors on ground and 4 floors
under ground. Its height is 296 meters from ground, the tallest
building in Japan. The 69th floor is for the observatory. The
world fastest elevator with a climbing speed of 750 meters per
minute brings you to the floor in about forty seconds. Although
I imagined I could feel a big accerlation, I could not find any
difference from usual high speed elevators.iFee; Adult \1,000j
The view from the observatory is 360 degrees panorama. Today
it was cloudy, hiding Mt. Fuji from the view. The city of Chiba
could not be seen beyond Bay Bridge by moistures. |
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All passengers were asked to get off from going
down elevator at the fifth floor and were lead to a big shopping
mall as shown in the right picture. It is said that it looks
like a shopping center in Minneapolis, Minnesota(the writer have
never been there.) The place was magnificent, beautiful and full
of shoppers. |
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At last I acknowledged that the most of people
marching from Sakuragicho Station to the tower come to make shopping
at this mall not to the sky high observatory.
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On an Express train of Keihin Kyuko when I came
back to Tokyo, I saw a group of primary school students who fell
in sleep deeply on their way back from sea bathing. I had the
same experience long long ago as of them. |
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