Bullet Train

I'm exited, because today I am going to Nagoya by Shinkansen bullet train.
Come to think of it, when I first went to this large city it was with my father when I was 12. It took 5 hours from Tokyo by express train. Now by Shinkansen, it is only a 1- and-half-hour trip. See? we are receiving the benefit of scientific development. But we have to think about its ramification.
The meeting will start at 5 pm. Hopefully it will end at 7. Before the advent of the shinkansen, it would have been already too late at night to come back to Tokyo. So we'd have had to stay there and come back the next day. But this way, we could've enjoyed the next morning strolling around Nagoya castle, spending quality time eating Nagoya special food like miso-katsu (cutlet with miso sauce) and tenmusu (rice ball with deep fried shrimp in it; I love it). The progress of technology has deprived us of such a small pleasure... I wonder which world would be better. Convenient but busy, or inconvenient but relaxed. For unknown reason, we do not want to go back.
By the way, I remember an advantage of aging. I can enjoy the same movie twice without knowing I have seen this movie already, until my wife says "Oh, you have watched it already.":-)
Thank you as always for reading.
PS bie opened her blog account a couple of days ago. She wants to practice her Japanese.
Enjoy talking to her in whichever language you like; Japanese or English. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/bietan/