The second year of the Reiwa period began with a nightmare. More precisely, at the beginning of the year, nobody could predict what would be going on just two months later. I am talking about what the entire world is fighting against—COVID-19.
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Taco Bell in Japan
Today I went to the Taco Bell in Shibuya, which opened last Tuesday as Japan’s first Taco Bell store, and hundreds of people had waited in line for more than two hours in front of the store on the first day only. Today there was a long queue, too. A staff member at the end of the queue said I would have to wait up to two hours to be served. It was a bit tough for me to wait such a long time, but I couldn’t help but do it to enjoy the American taste I’d ever had in New York, where I had traveled for a business trip.
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I’m Back!
Apologies for not updating my blog since I did on the first day of this year. I’m usually on Facebook these days.
One of what I did this year is that I moved out of my house at Fukagawa. The rental contract was expiring at the end of July, and I had to choose whether I renewed it to keep living there or terminated it and found a new house. I decided to move to another place. I lived there for four years and was satisfied with life there, but at the same time, I thought I should change my life to change myself.
I found a new house in Oji, about 10km north of Tokyo’s city centre. This neighbourhood is a beautiful area developed in the 14th century, with its fresh verdure and sometimes called “Richmond in Japan” because people in central Tokyo often make a one-day trip to this area since the Edo Era, similar to holiday-makers in London who visit Richmond.
I, together with my car, moved to the new house in the middle of July. Monthly fees for the house and the garage dropped compared with the ones at Fukagawa, which was closer to the city centre. It’s been more than three months since the removal, and the new life here is very nice.
