The City is building a new City Hall near Kenkyu Gakuen Station. It is scheduled to open in May of 2010. The new building will amalgamate all of the city hall departments, so it will no longer be necessary to go to completely different parts of the city to deal with separate [...]
In April 2009. the average number of riders on the Tsukuba Express was 27,500 per day. The goal when the Tx was planned was to have at least 20,500 passengers per day by 2009 and 27,000 passengers per day by 2010, so we are one year ahead of the plan. As we reach [...]
A local taiko group called Chuo Hayashikai will be performing at iias (the giant mall on Kita Odori near Kenkyu Gakuen Station) on August 15 and 16 at the following times: 2:00pm, 3:30pm, 5:00pm.
They will be playing at the Event Plaza on Katsuragi Road (outside the main mall, maybe near the radio station?).
This group is [...]
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After a VERY long hiatus (I’ve been too busy at work to post new articles lately), I am coming out of my involuntary retirement to tell you about some exciting visitors…
According to the Tsukuba City Hall website, it seems that we are to have a royal visit on Friday, August 7, 2009.
Map of [...]
Since many new people come to Tsukuba in April, I thought this might
be a good time to remind TsukuBlog readers of the existence of a Google Map with points of interest in Tsukuba.
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If any of you are interested in helping to populate this map with new
points of interest, please contact us.
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