Kakizaki Memi blog post: A train on the Wakarima Line

The point of this post depends on a pun in Japanese. I'll do my best.
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Wakarima Line

Kakizaki Memi
2017.02.10

Good evening,
It's Kakizaki Memi.

Meimei (Higashimura Mei) and I were going to take a train.

Me: "Which line? Heading to what station?"

Mei: "Wakarimasen." ("I don't know.")

Me and Mei: "...huh?... (explosion of laughter)."

[note: "Wakarimasen" means "I don't know." But a "sen 線" is a railway or subway line, like the Yamanote Sen or the Shinjuku Sen. So it sounded like Mei was saying they should take the "Wakarima" line.]

My poor way of telling the story probably doesn't get the humour across, but it was really funny. We couldn't stop laughing (lol).

Hiragana Keyaki out-of-town members may finally have moved to Tokyo

Even since Hiragana Keyakizaka46 was created last summer, I have been expecting the out-of-town members -- Higashimura Mei (Nara), Kakizaki Memi (Nagano), and Takase Mana (Osaka) -- to move to Tokyo and live in the dorm. But it didn't happen.

I eventually came to the conclusion that they would wait until the end of the school year in February-March to make the move. And now here we are. Indications from all three of their blogs are that they may finally have moved to the capital. Hiragana Keyaki can now enter a more intense stage of its training and activities.

First it was Takase Mana who wrote a couple of days ago about the difference in escalator etiquette between Osaka and Tokyo. Maybe that has to do with which side of the escalator you stand on, to let faster people rush past. In Tokyo, it tends to be stand left. But in Tokyo every corner in some stations seems to being a new instruction as to which side of a corridor to walk on, left or right. And sometimes people follow the instruction.

Nagahama Neru blog post: Tokyo, Nanako, the future

Four-and-a-half-mat room, 162

Nagahama Neru
2017.01.28

Good evening~

Gulp-gulp Naako-chan
(She's adorable no matter what she's doing.)



Walking around Tokyo, from time to time
I suddenly come upon an area that seems like it's from the future ( ˙࿁˙ )

I wonder if I can get this across properly ~
It's like a high-tech street from a movie.