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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello guys.
Hello.
So, you did your hikoshi.
Yes.
You talked to me about the difficulties and what you learned and everything, right?
So, tell me about your new place.
Yeah.
You settled, right?
Yeah.
You haven't unpacked everything yet?
It's like 90%.
Okay.
I haven't.
Everything was unpacked, but I haven't...
I changed my... this yuka.
Oh, okay.
What?
I tried to...
I didn't like the floor.
Okay.
So, I changed into a new floor.
Is that possible?
I mean, it's not something completely change and move.
I just put extra floor on my floor.
Oh, on top of it.
Yeah.
So, you didn't damage the rent or anything like that?
It's like a seat.
I got it.
It's like a cushion floor mat thing.
I see.
So, that's not yet perfectly done.
I've got one...
One section left.
It's about a week or so, not done yet.
Yeah.
But besides that, yeah.
You are now in your new place for like what?
For two or three weeks now?
Even more?
One and a half weeks.
One and a half.
Oh, still.
Okay, very recent.
Yeah.
So, so far so good?
I see, remember on the like few days when I just came to the new place, I said I didn't like the place.
Yeah, you said that it was too what?
Too much buildings?
Yeah.
Too much like no ninja.
Yeah.
You don't feel any warmth.
Yeah, I didn't like that.
Yeah.
But day by day, I start liking this place and I found great like cafes, great parks, great like street with you know, nomiyasans and like old, dirty, but delicious yakitori asans.
You know, so now I kind of start loving this place and yeah, I like it.
I enjoy it.
But is it ever going to be better than what you've kind of originally wanted?
Or it's like it's from an "eh" to an "okay" zone rather than an "eh" to a "oh, I think I like this more than anything else."
Huh, not like more than anything else, you know, every city has downside and upside, but it's like, "Oh, maybe I like this place."
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Okay.
Is my feeling right now.
So like not as bad as I thought.
Yeah.
But it's, yeah, I like this place.
It's some point on some point, it's better than I expected on some point, you know, it's still too like too many buildings, too many cars maybe.
But yeah, overall, like, "Oh, I like this place."
Okay.
Yeah.
So, you know, having that, so many of the, the recoveries that you've got, I'm assuming they all come from like you starting to feel the warmth in the city?
Yeah.
And also like natures.
Nature, okay.
Like, so like parks and everything.
Parks and like rivers.
Okay, okay.
Like beautiful buildings.
Do you like going there or do you just like to be around that place?
Do you actually like to go in those stores and go going into this park or do you just like, is looking at it okay?
Like just walking past by is enough for you?
Yeah, that's, I want to stay there.
Walking through is enough.
Okay, okay.
You know, having nature around me or having good architecture around me is that fact is, you know, satisfies me.
Okay, got it.
Yeah.
So, and also I bought some new things.
Okay.
Like, like, like ofuro, you know, do you have ofuro, ofuro-isu?
I don't have ofuro.
You don't have ofuro-isu?
I bought that.
And that can be magnet into the wall.
Wow.
I thought you're going to go for some wooden kind of.
Oh, yeah.
Hinoki thing.
Yeah, I thought that's what you kind of like.
Oh, yeah, I like those too.
I thought that was where you were going to go because you were kind of craving for the warmth.
True, true.
Oh, that's what should I go.
Yeah, that's true.
But yeah, this time I went to like the convenient side so that, you know, can be easily dried.
True.
Yeah.
That sounds very convenient.
And like shampoo in bodies of bottles that can also magnet to the wall and so that easily, you know, clean up things.
Yeah.
And do you know Yamazaki jitsugyo?
That's the one I bought.
That's a really good brand.
That's the one I bought.
Yeah.
So I bought my dendo shoukou desk.
Oh, from Yamazaki.
Well, not from that brand.
Okay.
Like a lot of the add-ons, like tissue boxes that are magnets, right?
Yeah.
Those are all from like Yamazaki jitsugyo.
Yeah.
They're really clean and convenient.
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Good looking.
Yeah.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
If you see my Amazon purchase histories, they were like, "Brrr, Yamazaki jitsugyo."
Like, I spent ichi man en on Yamazaki jitsugyo.
I get it.
I get it.
I like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I bought some like binibukuro holder that can...
Yeah.
I think you know what that is.
Oh, like genkan kasatate things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those things.
It's a good brand.
Yeah.
It really upgrades your house, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It looks cool.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
So like you've now upgraded your house.
Yeah.
So you think it's like it's better now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're starting to love the place.
Yes.
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah.
I found a great cafe.
Like yesterday.
Okay.
Or like the day before yesterday.
And I went there like already three times.
That's impossible.
You got to go there more than once a day.
Yeah.
I went in the morning and had a cup of coffee and then went afternoon.
So what is it about the cafe that you like?
Is it the taste of the coffee or is it more like the atmosphere?
The atmosphere.
Yeah.
And people.
And bread.
The bread.
The coffee.
The coffee.
Is it like a really small cafe?
Not that small.
It's like a...
It's not small.
Okay.
It's a big one.
Okay.
Okay.
It's like big Starbucks store.
Same size.
Does it start with a D?
No.
No.
Okay.
Then different cafe.
Okay.
You know that place?
I thought I...
Yeah.
I thought I know what you were talking about.
Oh.
Oh.
Yeah.
I recommend the cafe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now, you know, kind of walk to the nearest like, you know, huge places.
Do you know?
Right.
Right.
Right.
Like Tokyo place.
Yeah.
Like the main, you know, places and yeah, that's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How about, how about some of the downsides that you wish that wasn't there?
Cars.
Is it loud?
Loud.
Yes.
And also like buildings are not beautiful.
I see.
I love beautifully constructed architecture things.
Okay.
Like one in, you can find in Kyoto.
Right.
Like one you can find maybe.
Yeah.
Kanazawa maybe.
But this, you know, my new place, it's like a office guy kind of places.
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So all buildings are made for like businesses, not like beauty.
I see.
Too efficient.
Yeah.
Like too completely efficient based, you know.
So it's not beautiful.
It's like, it's like.
It's not there for you to look at.
Yeah.
Why, why?
It's so boring.
Yeah.
I don't know.
No, I don't like that.
Yeah.
I get it.
If I could paint into like yellow or like bright green, that can be make, make it more
funnier.
But yeah, that's one downside.
Yeah.
Like.
Oh.
Yeah.
Got me.
It's funny because for me, those kinds of views is exactly what I want.
Oh, like those buildings.
That really portrays Tokyo.
Yeah.
Like the modern city, like a typical street of Tokyo.
Yeah.
Filled with these boring buildings.
Oh, no, really?
Yeah.
I feel that, of course I like the beautiful building, for example, like the, like the
towers, right?
Yeah.
Like Moribiru.
Yeah.
Those.
Or like those sky trees.
Yeah.
Or, you know, those, those beautiful buildings.
I like them too.
Yeah.
But just as much, I also love the typical boring old.
Zaktobiru's.
Street buildings.
No, really?
The view of it is like, oh, Tokyo.
Oh, that's interesting.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
No, I don't want to replace everything into like different ones.
What's okay.
Besides those iconic architectures, for example, like Skytree.
Yeah.
Or like Tokyo Tower.
Or like Fujitade building.
Okay.
What is your, what attracts, which building attracts you the most?
Oh, huh.
There are so many.
Okay.
The first area that came in my mind was Shinjuku.
Okay.
It's like Tocho side of Shinjuku.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
It's like Shinjuku Chuo Koen.
Chuo Koen.
You know, around those Koen, there are like tall buildings, right?
Right.
Like huge, like, like hotels and huge buildings.
And that's beautiful.
Okay.
I like those.
Those hotel buildings.
Yeah.
And like business, you know.
Yes.
Tall buildings.
That's, that's not boring.
That's, I guess, pass.
It's a pass.
Yeah.
But, what I love the most is like, do you like Asakusa, right?
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I like Asakusa.
Yes.
Just in front of the Sensō-ji gate.
Yes.
Just the other side of the street, there are like, it's like a Kankō-kaikan.
Asakusa Kankō-kaikan.
Okay.
I think I know what you're talking about.
Goro Goro Kankō-kaikan.
I guess that was the name of the building.
Yeah.
I think I know what you're talking about.
That's beautiful.
Okay.
Have you ever visited there?
No, I've never visited.
I've never went inside.
Okay.
And I can't, I also can't remember what it looked like.
Okay.
The exterior, I can't remember.
It's like a combination of wood and modern architecture.
And it's like a Starbucks in somewhere, like Daifu.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's like a very, oh, I know that.
I know that.
One of the most kind of osharena Starbucks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like those, like combination between like those wood nature things and like modern architecture things.
Mix of modern and traditional.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's constructed by Kuma, Kuma-san, you know, the famous architecture.
Kuma-san?
Yeah, the Kuma Kengo-san.
No, I don't know him.
Yeah.
Basically, I love every single building made by that guy.
Yeah.
I like those.
Yeah.
My favorite.
Okay.
And when you go to - so I don't know which building.
I haven't tracked down what the exact building is.
But you can see it when you go to either - I don't know which one was the correct one.
Either Gururi Koen and -
What slide?
Gururi Koen.
It's near Ariake.
Oh, okay, okay.
It's Ariake or -
Odaiba area?
Odaiba area.
There's this thing called Gururi Koen.
Okay.
If you go there and look on the Toyosu side.
Okay, okay.
It's there.
Or if you go to Toyosu and go to that park.
Okay.
Right next to Lala Port.
Okay.
There's a park right next to Lala Port.
And there's the ocean side.
And if you look on the ocean side, you'll see the building.
The building is - I think it's a double building.
Okay.
And it's got - at night, there's this edge.
They have a light up edge on the corner.
It's rectangular.
It's not round.
It's rectangular.
I think it's fully rectangular.
Fully rectangular.
And like - and it has a - there's a line on the edge and it's so sexy.
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What do you mean line?
There's a lot -
Like a lightening line?
Like a simple - okay, so you know -
It's a lightening up?
Yeah, it lights up.
Oh, okay, okay.
It's kind of similar to the edges of the Disney Hotel.
Like, you know, if you go on the highway, you can see at night like the edges of the
hotel of the Disney Hotel.
It's not gold.
It's kind of similar to that, but it's like - it's rectangular.
It's got edges and it's sexy.
That is so sexy.
You love that building.
Is that like a tower mansion or like -
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Okay.
Yeah.
I - presumably it's a tower mansion or some sort of like a fancy building.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Fancy office building.
Yeah, of course.
Right.
Oh.
Or if you can live in that mansion.
Well, yeah, I guess - I don't know.
If you live in that mansion, you can't see that.
Yeah, you won't be able to see it.
So maybe live in front of that building?
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
There you go.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye.
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