Salma Fadhilah

               In Japan, the citizens commonly run their activity based on the weather forecast. It's because, Japan is well known with the precise weather forecast and all the citizen of Japan are believe in it. So that the weather forecast, including the system and the device, are very important to all the Japanese people. The Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System (AMeDAS) is a collection of Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) run by JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) is the device for automatic observation weather aspects to support realtime monitoring of weather conditions with high temporal and spatial resolution. An AMeDAS observing station measuring precipitation, wind direction/speed, temperature and sunshine duration (with snow cover meter). JMA began operating the AMeDAS system, which now currently spreaded all around Japan at average intervals of 17 km nationwide, on 1st November 1974.

I’ve been about 2 months here during the Asean International Mobility for Student (AIMS) program in Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (TUAT) and I feel I already got so many things. There are many new experiences that i never had before. Some of that are from my university life like study in classes and laboratory, and the other are from what I’m doing beyond that time such from the social life here in Japan, culture, and what I see when I’m sightseeing around. I’ve been dreaming to step my feet here in Japan since very long time ago when I was a kid. Then later when I grew up, I study Landscape Architecture in my university, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). Then in every lecture that I got, my lecturer always told me that Japan is the country that very good in the landscape architecture. In almost every landscape architecture principle that I learnt, Japan is the example of the application. So many sceneries from nature to manmade park are shown in our lec...

Ceritanya, malem sebelum berangkat fieldtrip ke Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office (yang ditulis di post sebelumnya ), saya dapet Whatsapp dari tante saya, Tante Winda, yang dulu sempet tinggal di Jepang. Awalnya beliau cerita kalo abis baca postingan yang tentang Kawagoe  dan jadi kangen lagi sama Jepang. Terus beliau juga cerita, atau lebih tepatnya kasih tips buat saya yang notabene berstatus pelajar yang ke Jepang dengan duit beasiswa, bukan yang emang mau jalan-jalan dan udah persiapin dana cukup. So pastinya saya kere dan butuh tips-tips ala backpacker buat memanfaatkan waktu-waktu tersisa (yang semakin menipis) disini. Beliau bilang kalo sebelum kita nge eksplor Jepang, khususnya Tokyo, ada satu hal yang harus kita lakuin untuk bisa eksplor Tokyo dengan maksimal tapi dengan biaya yang lebih rendah dari biaya normal. Dan guess what? hal itu bisa dilakuin di Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office!