What My Bedroom Looks Like

Do you think Japanese people sleep on futons in tatami rooms? I want to demonstrate my bedroom as an example and you’ll know how Japanese houses have been changing in recent years. My square bedroom is not a traditional Japanese style, even though I have a tatami room in my house. My house is a Canadian style house. Please imagine a square room with cream colored walls and you are at the back right corner. There is a nice white door with a gold knob imported from Canada to go into my bedroom. And you see a brown desk on left side in the corner. Beside the desk, there is a bed with a yellow bed seat. Also, I have pretty white windows from Canada between the desk and the bed, and on the far wall next to the bed. On the far right, there is a small white door that is also from Canada. That's one of the entrances to go to the storage room. The wall on the right side is decorated with postcards, CD's and stickers. So, nowadays people prefer to live in western style houses. Also we'd like to keep storage rooms in our houses even though a lot of people are used to having small sheds in their yards before. Our house styles are getting universal.

※storage room    It's a place people keep things which they don't use for a while such as heaters,fans,futons etc.

Fukuoka part 2 !!

I'd like to continue talking about Fukuoka, this time about tourist attractions.
There are many interesting places in Fukuoka , but I'll introduce most famous places .

First we have a beautiful tower in the city also near by the sea.

It's " Fukuoka Tower" !!  The height is 234 m ,  it's the highest seashore tower in Japan and it's just less than half the height of the CN Tower.

The Fukuoka Tower is decorated by seasons such as Christmas illumination.

Here are two pictures of it.

And we have a dome just near by the tower.

The name is " Fukuoka Yahoo! JAPAN  Dome ".

We have baseball match there and we go there to support our home team, Soft Bank Hawks!!

They are a strong team and they won the league this season, so I'm very happy !!

The dome can hold  about 37,025 people for watching baseball.

Right next to the dome, there is Momochihama beach.

People like going there to have wedding parties, nice meals, playing beach sports, walking their dogs and getting on the ferry to other places.


We can go to the aquarium " MARINE WORLD umino-nakamichi" by boats from there.

We enjoy the dolphins and sea lions shows with the ocean in the back !

And there is a park just across the street from the aquarium ; the name is " Uminonakamichi Seaside Park".  It's a national park ; there are gardens, a small zoo, some attractions, outside pools (only summer) in the park.  Sometime we have outdoor concerts there.

Then go back to the town, I'd like to introduce a popular park in Fukuoka.

It's " Ohori park".   The most famous thing in the park is a fireworks festival on 1st of August.

About 400,000 people come to the park to see the fireworks every year.

Also we enjoy Sakura (Cherry blossoms) in Spring there .

Finally I tell you the most famous thing in Fukuoka, it's " Yatai"  which is food stalls.

You can see them in Tenjin area.

At night people push carts into the street and sell food like noodles, Japanese BBQ , alcohol drinks etc.

But people usually eat the most famous food in Fukuoka that is " Tonkotsu  Ramen" .

It"s nodole with pork soup.

I show you the picture of Tonkotsu Ramen.

Fukuoka is famous for it , and it's very popular.

So nowadays a lot of Tonkotsu Ramen restaurants run in many places which is including other country .

For example,  there is a Tonkotsu Ramen restaurant named "Ippudo" in New York.
It's also from Fukuoka.


Thank you for reading!!