Hirakata is a nice place to live in Japan. As expected, on the boundaries of college campuses there are banks, markets, post offices, 99 shops and even bars. So, it has all the basic facilities next to you and usually you can get there by foot or by a short bus ride or by subway in Hirakatashi station, which takes about 10min away from the Availstore.
A few decades ago Hirakata grown exponentially because of residential housing projects and what was once a suburban farming village, nowadays it has been transformed into a residential city. In my view this residential area covers such a huge space that I must take care to not get lost in the ecstasy of adventure... The houses’s architecture are very similar, the streets have no name and also there are few points of reference that really make a difference. The location of houses depends on it’s block number but sometimes this information is not enough even for people who live very close from where you are planning to go, then you are supposed to had some signs kept in your mind before. The name of the family, gardens, flags, stickers on doors, bicycles, dogs or religious symbols stamped in front of the resident’s house can help you to find your place.
The lack of space naturally reflects on residents behavior. On this way, the residents of Hirakata cho appreciate the silence and day-by-day it is remarkable that among neighborhood there is a mutual respect for the home environment.You will see that it is quite common during the day old men and women walking back and forth (they are incredibly active), children riding a unicycle or couples running together around the park.Motorcycles and bicycles are in everywhere, sharing space with a certain flow of cars but I have never witnessed a chaotic traffic since I got here.
Describing the space and the inhabitants of Hirakata may sound a bit confused and confined however the order outweighs any limitation. Concerning the beliefs of a country which ensures order and discipline as human values in several ways, it makes sense that everything seem works without accidents or claustrophobia.. at least by now.
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You were to write about your neighborhood, not all of Hirakata-shi.
You are missing a picture again this week. There are some formatting problems as well - sometimes double spaced, sometimes single spaced... And you haven't fixed the problems I asked you to fix last week. If you need help, please see me.
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