Tozan the Traveling Wolf

October 9th is Sports Day, one of the national holidays of Japan. I have also a remaining paid day off from my intern company, so I decided to travel around Boso peninsula in Chiba, with very cheap train and bus free-pass, 4700 yen for two days. Introduction: Where is Chiba? Chiba prefecture is in the Greater Tokyo area. It is located to the east of Tokyo, populated more than 6 millions. The prefecture has a big peninsula, called Boso, so it is surrounded by sea and it doesn't have high mountains unlike other Greater Tokyo prefectures (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Yamanashi the highest). Chiba-city, the biggest city of the prefecture is 40 minutes from Tokyo by train, but the peninsula is a little big and it takes more than 4 hours to move around it by local trains. If you have been to Tokyo once, perhaps you came to Tokyo from Narita airport. Narita is in Chiba, but it's far north to the Boso area. You might have visited Tokyo Disneyland or Disney Sea, where is also

August 1st, 2017 Competition Day 2. Honestly at this time, I was completely exhausted from the beginning of the day. Future host countries should take stamina of participants into consideration. However, I was happy to see the best result of Japanese team in their International Olympiad in Informatics history. After the contest and lunch (it was around 4PM), we headed to the National Botanical Garden of Iran. As an agriculture student, I couldn't help but get amuzed. They have plants native in Iran, some Western Asian and European plants (that I'd never seen before), and so-called "Chinese and Japanese garden" that I admit was Eastern Asian flora. This is my favorite; not only the seeds (?) but also the form of the branches looks like an exemplary legume. Nice garden design. You can see 2 different parts of the Earth from another part of that. Chinese and Japanese garden. I think those rocks are too smooth for the rain-falling regions. When yo