Kurakuen-guchi

Kurakuen-guchi is a little town found in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Prefecture. This is where I lived for 6 months. This is also the first place I've livedin Japan. The first thing I liked about Japan is its cleanliness. Proper garbage disposal makes the whole Japan looks immaculately clean. Some five minutes walk from my house is the Hankyu Kurakuen-guchi Train Station. This station goes along the lengthy river called Shukugawa. Gawa means river in Japanese.

 Across the station are various elegant and expensive shop and restaurants lying along the street. One day I walked around the place and was checking shop by shop and found out that they sell such an expensive and signature brands of clothes, bags, shoes etc. Even the supermarket are quite expensive. I can tell that people who lives around this area are rich where everybody drives the most expensive cars in the world you can ever imagine. This place is such a beauty. A perfect place to live. A perfect place for the family especially raising children. It's very clean, organized and so peaceful. I could go out in the middle of the night without worrying that someone might rob me or hit me. One downside is that there's not much job opportunity in this town. Most people who lives around this area works outside this town like Osaka or Kobe If you love night outs, then this place is not for you. I see only one Irish pub just a minute away from the train station.


 This is the park where I usually hangout. Usually I go to the very close supermarket called Co.op to buy lunch and have it at this park overlooking the pond where kids catches shrimp and fish. Around this park is the playing ground.. Real place for outdoor activities which is good for the family.






Japan has so many temples where they can pray and give offering to their God. There is a high estimate of Buddhist and Shintoist believers in Japan. They are very religious people. If I smell the aroma of the incense I know for sure that there is a temple just close around me. I can smell them too often.





This is the graveyard  close to my house. It is a really huge one I've ever seen. It so beautiful to look at. I believe those bodies lie in here are the victims of the Kobe earthquake back in 1995. Across this graveyard is a shrine where the names of the victims are engraved in a marble.

This place is too way too nice. I could only see this little town in a book where everything is in place according to the authors preference.