{"id":2345,"date":"2009-06-15T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:59:26","slug":"waseda-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/waseda-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was surfing the internet to find out more about my future neighborhood near Waseda University<\/a>. While I had previously used Google maps, I found Yahoo Japan’s maps to be more useful for finding out what cool things are within walking distance. My son, for instance, was thrilled to see dozens of Ramen shops less than a 10 minute walk away from our future apartment. <\/p>\n

I noticed a Shinto shrine just a stone’s throw from our apartment that I wanted to investigate. So I googled \u5929\u7956\u795e\u793e to find some pictures of it. While the shrine itself doesn’t look very impressive, I found a fantastic site, that had pictures of the shrine on it, to learn about my future home. The site no longer exists.<\/p>\n

On the front page of Waseda Walker it states, “\u65e5\u672c\u3067\u3082\u6709\u6570\u306e\u5b66\u751f\u8857\u3068\u3057\u3066\u8cd1\u308f\u3046\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u30fb\u9ad8\u7530\u99ac\u5834\u5468\u8fba\u306e\u6b74\u53f2\u3068\u6587\u5316\u306e\u8db3\u8de1\u3092\u305f\u3069\u308a\u306a\u304c\u3089\u3001\u3053\u306e\u8857\u306e\u9b45\u529b\u3092\u518d\u767a\u898b\u3057\u3066\u3044\u304d\u307e\u3059.” which, for those of you who can’t read Japanese, means something like, “Even for Japan, this place is known for its number of students; we’ll follow the footsteps of history and culture around Takadanobaba and Waseda and set out to rediscover the charm of this part of Tokyo.” Given that my apartment lies directly between Takadanobaba and Waseda, I was very pleased in the discovery of this site. I poked around for a bit and then sent the webmaster a brief email in Japanese thanking him for his site.<\/p>\n

He responded today with a very nice reply, all in Japanese. I look forward to learning more from Hiroki San, the Waseda Walker, and in a couple of months walking the paths that he has researched and explained, seemingly for me, on his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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