大阪府豐中市的人孔蓋 Street Cover at Toyonaka, Osaka

 

日前在Yahoo部落格上看到了日本街上美麗的人孔蓋，蓋上的圖案就像是藝術品一樣‧不過更另我驚訝的是，其中有一個相片是大阪府豐中市的人孔蓋，於是便將這個部落格網頁轉給住在豐中市的日本朋友安由里和裕之‧

 

I happened to see a blog in Yahoo describing the beautiful street cover in Japan. To my surprise, one of the photo in the blog was taken in Tokonaka, Osaka where our friends Ayuri and Hiroyuki live. Thus I forwarded that web page to them.

 

安由里對蓋上的鱷魚圖案的解釋是，聽說在很久很久以前，他們的城市位於海底，因此在城市中發現了一些鱷魚骨頭‧人孔蓋上的鱷魚是他們城市的吉祥物‧

 

Ayuri told me about the crocodiles print on the street cover that there lived crocodiles in their city. She heard, long long time ago, their city was under water  (sea). Thus some crocodiles bones have been found here.  The crocodile on the cover is their city's mascot.

 

安由里和裕之是我們在Virtualtourist網站認識的朋友，他們喜歡接待造訪大阪的Virtualtourist網友，到各地旅遊也詢問當地網友聚會的可能‧2005年的元旦，他們來台灣旅遊 ‧我們約在中正紀念堂見面，然後大家散步經過凱達格蘭大道，228紀念公園到新光摩天大樓觀景台 ‧之後在Sogo樓上的崇軒用了晚餐，崇軒搬到敦化新館後，服務好像蠻差的，但菜色仍然不錯‧不過也因此沒什麼客人，所以大家吃得蠻盡興的‧用完餐後，我們就先離開了‧另一位網友繼續帶他們到士林夜市續攤‧說真的，我還蠻佩服安由里的食量‧

 

Ayuri and Hiroyuki were our friends meeeting in a travel website called Virtualtourist. They like to receive the VTers visiting their city, Osaka. When they travel around the world, they also try to meet the local VTers. We met them in the New Year holidays of 2005 when they visited Taiwan. We first met at the CKS memorial hall and had a walk along the street and 228 peace park to the Shin Kuang Observatory Tower. Then we had the dinner at Sogo. The service of the restaurant was not so good. However the food was delicious. Thanks to the bad service, the guests were few so we had a quite pleasant dinners. After the dinner, another VTer in Taipei took them to the Shihlin Nightmarket for the second dinner. I have to admire that Ayuri is really a big eater.

 

2005年11月我的同事莎拉去關西旅遊時，安由里和裕之還招待了她吃日本料理和洗公共溫泉浴室喔，我們也拖莎拉帶了台灣茶葉去給他們，他們也很高興喔‧

 

My colleague Sara visited Kansai area in November 2005. Ayuri and Hiroyuji also received her eating the typical Japanese food at a Japanese casual restaurant (Izakaya). After dinner, they went to a Hot Spring Public Bath "Yuraku". We also requested Sara to bring the Tawanese tea to Ayuri and Hiroyuki. They were quite happy with the taste of the tea.