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Full of People Around Fukui Station Areas

2017.04.27

Life in Fukui

The other day (April 23rd, 2017), the center of Fukui City was full of people.

 

西武福井店屋上で行われたJETSショー

Fukui Commercial High School’s cheerleader club, "JETS" performed at the department store, "Fukui Seibu" located in the shopping area of the west side of Fukui station. The rooftop of "Fukui Seibu" which is usually opened for the rooftop beer garden during summer time was full of people for their performance. Right before the doors opened, there was the long line of people waiting and it was snaking from the 8th floor to the 1st floor. It was even snaking its way to the outside of the building.

 

福井初のディズニーパレード

On Higashi-odori street which is in front of the eastside of Fukui station, there was a Disney parade in Fukui for the first time. According to Fukui Newspaper, there were about 80,000 people for the parade. The population of Fukui City is about 265,000 which means that one third of the population of the City came out for the parade.

 

I felt the power of intriguing content. I realized that the importance of showing interesting things which can catch many people’s attention such as performance of the cheerleader club, “JETS” and Disney parade.
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The wine made from one of the Top 10 Healthy Foods in the World ― The spring of Hakusan Winery ―

2017.04.03

Life in Fukui

白山ワイナリーの葡萄畑

The vineyard of Hakusan Winery (the photograph was taken on March 29th, 2017)

 

When I think about wine, I think about the foreign-grown grapes for making wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and so on. At Hakusan Winery which is the one and only winey in Fukui Prefecture, they make wine from the indigenous Japanese wild grapes.

 

The wild grapes are healthy food that it has been chosen as one of the top 10 healthy foods in the world on TIME. The wild grapes have 10 times more of the amount of polyphenols in regular grapes.

 

The Mt. Haku-san which we see from Fukui City still has snow, and it looks white and bright. As the snow has been melted at vinery of Hakusan Winery which is located at the bottom of a part of Hakusan National Park, Mt. Kyoga-take, people start taking care of the vineyard and making wine for this year.

 

It’s Mt. Arashima-dake at right in the photograph.

The mountains of Okuetsu (eastern Fukui) region can be seen on the way to Hakusan Winery.

It’s Mt. Arashima-dake (chosen as one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan) at right in the photograph.

 

 

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Winter Scenery in Fukui, Japan #3 / Snow Scenery from Train

2017.04.01

Life in Fukui

There have been many days that we can see the sun, the snow has been cleared in almost every parts of Japan and it has been getting warmer.
I would like to look back the winter which has just passed.

 

We had so much snow in Fukui Prefecture from February 10th, 2017 for a few days.

In Fukui, we don’t usually have much snow in February. And if even it does snow, we would not expect so much snow to be piled up. People in Fukui, all of us were taken by surprise with so much snow piled up in such a short time in February.

The areas where snow-removing vehicles did not go into to clear the snow, it was piled up to the knees.

 

Seeing the snow sceneries from the trains of the Echizen Railway in Fukui are always beautiful. Taking the Ktsuyama Eiheiji Line from Fukui station, as the train gets closer to Ktsuyama City, you start seeing snow more and more.

 

On February 11th, 2017, many public transportation services were delayed or cancelled but the Echizen Railway was fine. I like taking trains of Echizen Railway because of it. They hardly delay or cancel.

 

 

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Winter Scenery in Fukui, Japan #2 -Heavy Snowfall in Fukui / Beginning-

2017.02.18

Life in Fukui

As people from Fukui were saying that we didn't have much snow this winter,

heavy snowfall started around February 10th for a few days.

The video was taken from around the noon until the evening of February 10th,

beginning of the heavy snowfall.

The frosty trees, traffic lights and headlights were beautiful in the evening.


The next day, the entire city was covered in snow.

Most of the snow in the center of Fukui city was cleared, but some parts were not.

The parts with so much snow, cars and pedestrians had hard time walking through the areas.

 

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Winter Scenery in the Center of Fukui City #1

2017.01.31

Life in Fukui

It is now at the end of January, it started snowing

and the whole town and its street trees are covered with a thin layer of snow.

It's breathtakingly beautiful.

 

Fukui Prefecture is known as one of the cities which get so much snow during the winter time.

 

On January 31st, 1963 (40years ago), the greatest snow depth recorded for 1963 in Fukui was about 213 centimeters. And it was about 196 centimeters in 1981.

 

Can you imagine how much it usually snows during the winter in Japan? Let’s see the snow fall ranking by prefecture and let’s also find what’s the result for Fukui Prefecture.

 

According to NAVER matome, “Snow Fall Ranking of Prefectures in Japan

*conducted research with date of Japan Meteorological Agency”.

Average snow fall from every December from February, 2004~2014.

 

1st.Yamagata 636cm

2nd Niigata 578cm

3rd Akita 532cm

4th Fukushima 475cm

5th Nagano 423cm

6th Gifu 416cm

7th Aomori 409cm

8th Hokkaido 383cm

9th Toyama 333cm

10th Fukui 323cm

 

As you can see, Fukui Prefecture has been ranked in the 10th.

Compare to the result, it has not snowed much this year in Fukui and other prefectures.

 

We had so much snow in Fukui exactly 6 years ago today.

I would like to share a video of "suzuki250sb"

I think this is the winter of Fukui!

 

It has not snowed like this since then.

It’s good that we don’t have much snow so we can drive and/or walk safely

but it seems that something is missing for the winter in Fukui.

I wonder if it snows more by the end of February.

 

 

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