Some railway companies provide reasonable ticket which usage is limited to day time or weekend.
I usually use Tokyo Metro’s tickets, You can buy tickets 30 % lower price.
Today, I bought Tobu railway tickets, but this ticket is only limited for limited route.
In tokyo metro’s case,You can choose any route as long as the fare is same.
After returning to Japan,
Continuing to study English is very important issue.
As for listening and reading,you can get good source on the Internet.
(I’ll provide my recommendation in near future)
However, speaking and writing is difficult to continue in daily life.
So I resume to go “Tokyo Eikaiwa Club” for the first time in two months.
It is held almost every day around Tokyo metropolitan area.
You can choose wherever it is convenient for you.
水曜日に開催される原宿英会話クラブ
原宿とはいっても、ちょっと辺鄙なところにあります。
（英会話クラブの開催場所は、公共の施設を使っているので駅近いところはあまりありません）
本日の会場は千駄ヶ谷区民会館
しかも和室で英語という非現実的な組み合わせでした。
ほとんどが日本人なのですが、この日は韓国人の方がお友達と二人で来てらっしゃいました。
日本語勉強中だそうで普通に日本語通じます。来て8か月と言ってましたが、大したもんですね。
中級・上級のテーブルが多かったので二つに分かれて、われわれは3人で（ちょっと少ない）トークです。
やはり日本人の方で出張経験豊富な方と一緒のテーブルでとてもハイレベルトークでした。
その他のところもちょくちょく参加してますので、ほかの英会話クラブのレビューなどは下記リンクからどうぞ。
In Japan, We can not buy a Jasmine rice easily at ordinary store.
It is suitable for fried rice or Thai green curry.
because it is less sticky than Japonica rice.
What’s more,
It is easy to cook,just boil 10 minutes in hot water .
Sometimes I want to eat it.
Of course we can buy it from the Internet,but shipping cost is a little bit high!
So I found good store named “Asia Super store ” in Shin-Ohkubo.
The Asia Super store provides variety of ingredients for Thai cuisine.
You can get 1Kg jasmine rice at 650 yen.
It is reasonable price, isn’t it?
When I bought it, the store staff asked me if my wife is a Thai.
No way!
I just said “I love a jasmine rice, so I often come here to buy it.”
Since I had eaten a lot during my stay in the philippines,
I was afraid of rapid increase of body weight.
My prediction was 5 kg up.
However,
When I measure body weight after returning to Japan, It was exactly the same as one month ago!
I was relieved.
The reasons I came up with are:
one is walking almost everyday to Robinson Supermarket and strolling around the hotel every morning.
Second is to carry heavy item, especially for girls!
Everytime they bought heavy item such as 4 liters water,I offer help to carry them to the hotel.
because I wanted to be seen as a gentle man!
Anyway,
It is good exercise!
I usually watch NBC-today podcast for learning.
The most of this program is news, but sometimes there is an interesting program.
in today program, they did an experiment to test a psychic.
A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses.
They prepared new house, then invited four psychics,
Each psychic said something about house such as this house was cursed, did some ritual things.
Then after that, TV staff revealed the truth.
This house is new! they were telling a lie!
but it cost them over $1000!
It was like an sting operation.
The fact that news program did such a thing made me surprised!
I started to listen to this podcast since 2011.
ESL podcast is very famous podcast for non-native speakers.
It provides two short dialogs and an english cafe every week.
This podcast is suitable for all level such as beginner, intermediate, and advanced level.
This is very helpful for everyone.
First,
It is because the speed is relatively slow compared to the normal-speed.
Also, it provides scripts!
(You can see the scripts when you use iphone/iPod music player)
Second,
When the difficult words are used,
The host will explain it in easy word.
That helps us to remember synonyms!
What’s more is that you can download previous episodes from ESLPOD.com.
The total number of episodes is over 1000.
Ech episode is categorized such as business,health,relationship etc.
Finally
The dialogs are mostly related to a daily situation.
English Cafe has some categorized theme such as american culture, famous city, american presidents.
The good thing about this is that it’s free.
(If you want to get more information such as script or learning guide, you have to be a member)